This was such a satisfying end to this trilogy and the strongest book in the series. There is, as with the other two books in this series, an over-reliance on expository narrative devices to tell too ...
I initially rated the book at three stars, but dropped it down to two as I sat with my reactions over night.The summary of my review is: I wish John has finished his part in time to give the editor ti...
4.5 stars — what a great SF series! Final review, first posted today on Fantasy Literature:A few thousand years in the future, one branch of humanity, comprised of billions of people, lives on a set...
This book is the conclusion to a three-book (so far) series called “The Interdependency.” Scalzi published the first in the series in 2017 and this book, “The Last Emperox” in 2020. I always s...
Well now!This was a delight to read. So much tongue-in-cheek science snark, world-wise politics, and a tale that welcomes, or at least braces-for, the end of the empire. Yes, all these colonies and ha...
4.5ish stars.Such a satisfying conclusion. I love the amount of snark that Scalzi has included in the series and the final line of this final installment makes the journey completely worth it. I think...
*** 4.75 ***"... “As far as Kiva could tell, whenever selfish humans encountered a wrenching, life-altering crisis, they embarked on a journey of five distinct stages: Denial. Denial. Denial. Fuckin...
Kind of fizzled and let out an unsatisfying *poof* like a malfunctioning firework. It's Scalzi so it was still fun and a joy to read, but this conclusion didn't really do much for me, especially after...
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Misery of Expression: "The Last Emperox" by John Scalzi “To begin, there was Shit fuck fuck shit fuck shit fucking fuck shit fucking shit...
3.5 StarsThrough no fault of its own, The Last Emperox couldn’t have arrived at a better time. John Scalzi’s novels are uniformly brief and briskly paced, with rapid fire action and dialogue—in ...