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In some way you could stop here and it would feel like an ending with so much for the future but there were "some" resolutions.

What Gladstone did was the equivalent to shutdown the internet or even worse taking electricity away from humanity. Suddenly the capacity to travel went over the window or the whole economy was dismantled. From a readers perspective she did a good thing but still it's undeniable the chaos and price of the freedom humanity got was so high. I liked Gladstone.

For the first part the shrink was this terrifying creature that will get you and kill or at least do something horrible to you but these last few chapters have been hilarious. The shrink attending to a funeral or just walking around marching.

In some way this book ended up being similar to "Hyperion". The first book had many stories that were told one at the time that transmuting the book one at the time but this one has many frontiers with stuff happening at the same time. We have Gladstone on one side, Dure in the tree world, the pilgrims that stayed in the sands of time, Kassad with the weird lady, the consul on his way to parlay and Servern too.A lot.

We were witnesses of the destruction of a world and it was scary as hell.

The consul couldn't get a break. First he crashed, then he was kidnapped then beaten then another crash and finally when he reached the ship he was given a new mission and asked to leave his friends for the moment. All in order to help a government he particularly hates.

The action in the city was cool though.

Does Severn have narrator super powers? How is he able to se more than Lamia can see?

Also I'm so grateful Lamia pointed out all Ummon was saying was really hard to understand. I was wasn't understanding any of that gibberish.

I don't want to say Dure has it easy because for the past many years he went through hell but he is the only one the shrink has helped.

Lamia's Peter Pan story also follows the thread of hoping to meet with a fantastic being to be granted answers or even a wish if we see it in a childish way.

I thought the main character was going to be Servern but Gladstone has carried a lot of protagonism and the political side of this conflict has been growing in me.

There's a connecting thread here. Everyone wants to meet "god". The core wants to create god, the pilgrims want to meet god so god can perform a miracle for them. And then the replacement issue with the IA finally replacing humanity. So the creature takes the creator's place.

That fight between Kasaan and the secret sniper was good. One of the few occasions where I don't get lost in the action.