I am enjoying these books, but I still have to complain that it really isn't fair to drop the reader at the end of a full trilogy with the story lines so completely unresolved that, in all fairness, we ought to be able to turn the page and keep on reading. Not only is nothing resolved, a major complication is added in the last chapters. Sort of like the Robin Hobb book.
So, John is sort of dead (temporarily), Leo is dead (also temporarily), Emma is now half demon (temporarily?), and the Turtle and the Serpent are hanging out at opposite poles without any clue about how to get together or that they need to - which is odd, because they came face to face down in the park in this book. We still don't know what Emma is. And Hell is located underneath an urban renewal project in Hong Kong. Okay, nasty Simon Wong (122) is dead (permanently?) - but nothing so far has led me to believe that anybody stays dead in this story (except John's wife, she is dead dead).
Now I have to decide if my annoyance is because the writer has tried to trick the reader into continuing - or lacks the confidence in her writing to end a story and trust that, if she writes it, readers will come. Or if my problem is that the next three books are already out - in Australia. I'm not at all certain why it is going to take until October to accomplish the US release.
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