Children of Ruin

This turned out to be a weird one. Too many faceless and so utterly uniform aliens that they don't even need their own names. It kinda worked with spiders in the first book, but this time it just felt hollow. There was an attempt to introduce diversity in the end, but at this point they were mostly just other names, without real personalities behind them.

The parasite problem, Kern's solution and their eventual ‘living happily after' was interesting, but a bit predictable and in the end - anticlimactic. It took more pages running from the parasite than opening these-of-We's eyes to the total wrongness of their existence. And they're just like 'Oh, OK, We's bad, let's make peace'. Hm...

I liked Fabian's arc though. Totally nailed the ‘enough this underestimating males bullshit' development. I think he had the strongest personality in this book and I'm happy for him that in the end he managed to keep this newly found confidence and build on it.