Quite satisfactory, though occasionally feeling as though three books feel into a stew pot and bred a fourth, longer book. ( )

It's funny how this is supposed to be the end volume in the Pip and Flinx series... but I started reading it with an ace up my sleeve. I got an ARC for the one that comes after. :)

So I'm reading this awesome volume that goes ahead and wraps up all these huge BDO's and story threads, between his sister, the Aann, his favorite girl, and so much more, putting a huge bow on top and letting Flinx BATTLE IT OUT with the HUGE HUGE big-bad that's eating galaxies.

Woah.

I mean, it's not like we've not seen this coming or anything, but it's really great to see all the threads come together and a great writer who pulls all the right strings together until everything ties-up perfectly.

It's called payoff. This book is the huge payoff. Do we like? Yes. Is anything really unexpected? Um. No. But that's okay! It's the journey, man! What's an adventure without journey? :)

So yeah, I like. :) Huge blowout ending. Everyone still alive gets together to fight or help each other. Alan Dean Foster puts grand gala in the grand Galaxy. Galaxies. :) Cool. :)

And now I've got to see what the new one is going to do. :) You can't keep a good Flinx down. ( )

I've been a fan of these books since the very beginning, so it is a lot of fun to see the return of the Tar-Aiym Krang and other bits and pieces from Flinx's past. Its a bit of a stretch to see him as the savior of the universe, but this isn't the first series to make 1 person the answer to everything. How they get to the solution and who goes along for the ride is the fun part of this book. I enjoyed the characters and the writing, and the sci-fi leans a little bit more to the 'hard sci-fi' side than is usual for Foster, which just makes it better. Definitely worth reading, though I'm sad to see the end of this saga. ( )

Wraps up the series in a very satisfying way. Ties together all the various plotlines assembled over 13 years. Very good book. ( )

read 2010 Wraps up the series ( )