Steve Gibson

I enjoyed this incredible ride of a story. Set in a future world and space, with most of the time spent on an alien planet with different biology and social animals, the story was about how we communicate.

The strongest theme and storyline is about how language divides us and bridges gaps between us. This aspect of the book is fascinating to me.

This has one of the most impressive heroines in fiction. Her preferred approach to hostility is to prevent a fight with words and cultural knowledge. That is what I'm talking about. I believe the most powerful weapon humans have is language, this author wrote about that idea.

We live the story with the characters. There is a naive narrator, who contributes to us learning through her questions.

One of my favorite reads of all time. If you like hard science fiction and like to think during your reads, this is a book for you.

I enjoyed this book almost as much as the first in the series. It has Bresq in all her awesomeness. She is powerful, intelligent and driven by compassion. I enjoyed it the most, after about half way, when the book directly starts exploring themes of oppression, gender, identity, colonization, survival, and revolution. As with the first two books, the way this book handles gender is to make it impossible to think about gender, in the ways we are used to. Good book, if you liked the first two, you will like this one.

I am not going to say much. There have been tens of thousands of reviews of each of the books in the Twilight series. I read them in a little over a week and enjoyed them all. I will just mention what I enjoyed most in this last book, Breaking Dawn.

The battle at the end was very enjoyable to me. It was handled as all battles should be written about. There was a long period of preparation, diplomacy was involved, the most important goal was to avoid fighting, and the minds and emotions and goals of each of the leaders on both sides was crucial to the beginning of the conflict and the final resolution.

It would be too much of a spoiler to say what happens in the final battle, but I was very happy at the outcome.

This was a satisfying conclusion to this tetralogy of books.