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The Ashes of Worlds (Saga of Seven Suns 7) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1779
Media: Paperback
Pages: 752
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 2
ISBN: 1847370799
EAN: 9781847370792
ASIN: 1847370799
Publication Date: August 4, 2008
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 A missed opportunity December 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit, overall, I found this saga brilliant. I like the premise and for the first 4 to 5 books I could not put them down. They were easy to read, a lot of the characters and story lines were good and I generally found them very gripping. Unfortunately, as things progressed so they started to fall apart. The hydrogue war seemed to end in the blink of an eye/a few pages which left you feeling that the climax did not come close to the expectation which had been set by the climatic build up. Book 6 - The metal storm, left you feeling depressed and confused....a whole new set of storylines appeared (making you wonder how the hell they could be finished in the final book)and a lot of negative things happened...
Book 7 did manage to tie up all the loose ends..but it seemed rushed and in some cases the solutions to end storylines were a bit silly.
All in all I would recommend people read these books.. just be prepared to feel a little short changed at the end thats all.
 I had to buy it but............. December 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had to buy this as I have read all the previous titles in this saga, however, as I have read them I have come to the opinion that this is one of the most dreadful series I have ever read. The premise is so simplistic with very 2D enemies with absolutely no development of motivation for courses of action. If you haven't bought any of these yet my advice would be not to bother as the end is ultimately predictable and sentimental.
There's some silly stuff in here December 2, 2008
While it's an interesting tale, the final volume is just a bit of a let down. Everything, and I mean everything, gets tidily resolved. There are some silly bits in here too. You have people on the planet looking at shells being fired by space ships. You have the pilot of a space ship able to spot people on the planet. And then there's the scale of the worlds where these things live. You might think a gas giant planet would support more creatures than the earth as it is so much bigger, and the sun would support even more creatures as it is so much bigger than the gas giant planet - but this does not figure in the story at all.
And then there's the human chairman who seems able to run the entire Earth federation single handed with only the aid of a deputy. The person in charge of the Earth Defense Force is off commanding a space fleet. Really? Who's running the military while he's away then? You have to suspend your belief in the real world quite a bit with this tale. It's interesting but not a masterpiece.
 Best book of the series November 25, 2008
This book is a brilliant conclusion to a fantastic epic.
It took me only two days to gobble down this book, and i enjoyed every second of it.
a nice conclusion to the series.
A solid if unspectacular end to the series November 21, 2008
So, everything is wrapped up nicely in the Spiral Arm. But perhaps a little too nicely.
The dialogue is still clunkingly awful in places, with characters spouting terribly earnest, even pompous lines. The action and invention that compensated for this in previous novels is still there, but it feels diminished, the enemies vanquished a little too easily in the end.
I guess an inevitable consequence of having so many characters is that there will be those that are interesting (Basil, Syrix, Davlin) and those who feel pointless or only half drawn (Celli, Cain, most of the Ildirans), and a final volume inevitably has to dwell on everyone, diluting my interest somewhat.
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