Two kind of people are going to read this book: those who like the previous and those, like me, who have to finish something they start.
I really like Douglas' solo books but I must say that I really found the previous two installment of The Rift to be underwhelming, boring. What's missing is Douglas' touch for clever twists, here it feels like everything it's brute force, for each new problem a new technology drops from heaven to solve it.
This book is so laughingly bad that it reads almost like a parody of its genre. And I almost managed to finish it, but I my willpower ran out at the epilogue, so technically I read only 95% of it. The love story was just so sweet and syrupy that I just couldn't take it anymore, I simply reached my limit. And if you've read the whole series and this book you imagine that my limit for nonsense is pretty much sky-high in the first place.
Anyway, I still love you Douglas, I hope this collaboration is just a one off and that you go back to writing cutting edge, clever thrillers. You're the master of that style on your own and I hope this failure doesn't make you doubt your talent, let's just put this one behind and do something great next.