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Final in the sense that we won't be following that same main character anymore, not in the sense that the author's done with that universe.

Eva absolutely eats these books up, and I enjoyed them as well. The plots are well-plotted, and the worldbuilding is fun if you don't look at it too closely*. But this last one... I mean... first, I kinda feel like we had one too many cameo appearances from earlier in the series, and secondly I thought we were heading to one sort of ending, and then within the last chapter we suddenly went to a different ending, and I dunno, I just feel like the ending we got wasn't at all as emotionally satisfying as the one I thought we were going to get.

It's still a fun read, and once I've re-read the entire series I'll be posting a review at

books as promised, but I'm not so thrilled with this ending.

* _{If you do look at it too closely, it starts to fall apart. Why should a world where superpowered individuals - of the mad science, flying brick, and literal magic varieties! - have been common since literal caveman times have the same historical notes we do, like WWII complete with Holocaust? (For that matter, why should they have Jews, or any of our actual current religions? Though I'll note that the only person we meet who has a named religion at all is a single old Jewish man who managed to escape the Holocaust by finding a portal to a secret space colony, so maybe Judaism is the only religion around in their world.) And since popular culture is so different from our pop culture (and I really want to read our protagonist's favorite graphic novel series!) why is CULTURE culture so similar? They're reading The Iliad in school! This is the sort of thing guaranteed to annoy me, but if you're not me you might not even notice it.}