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The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
Jul. 3rd, 2020 10:12 amThe Last Emperox
3/5. Conclusion to this space opera trilogy about a far future space empire collapsing as its wormholes close.
This book operates at the stakes of billions of people starving to death, but tonally it's pitched more like oh no, what if Starbucks doesn't have the muffin I want. This is not a criticism. Fun, diverse, snarky, with no shame about skipping over five hundred pages of plot in a few pages of cheerful tell tell tell. Even the gut punch at the end is deliberately pulled so it's more of a hard shove. Sometimes that's all you want.
Content notes: Major character death, sort of.
3/5. Conclusion to this space opera trilogy about a far future space empire collapsing as its wormholes close.
This book operates at the stakes of billions of people starving to death, but tonally it's pitched more like oh no, what if Starbucks doesn't have the muffin I want. This is not a criticism. Fun, diverse, snarky, with no shame about skipping over five hundred pages of plot in a few pages of cheerful tell tell tell. Even the gut punch at the end is deliberately pulled so it's more of a hard shove. Sometimes that's all you want.
Content notes: Major character death, sort of.