315 pages
English language
Published April 22, 2000 by Ace Books.
With their goals of peace and prosperity close at hand, the Rowan's descendants face the looming destruction of all they have suffered to achieve.
I just finished reading this book. It's the final book of the Tower and Hive series. The Talents manage to find a way to slow the Hiver's growth (spoiler: it's all to do with smell). The book starts with a quick refresh of previous events. It started to get somewhat murky with how many people there were to keep track of. Overall it felt somewhat anti-climactic.
Read this book in just about a day. It was a bit longer than the previous two novels in this series and picked up exactly where the previous one left off. Again, we had too many characters to keep track of, especially as more were introduced. The story progressed along smoothly, but I don't think the title was apt at all. I also find the cover art to not represent the story much, as I assume it is Damia and Afra on the cover at their Iota Aurigae tower. Who else could it be?
Ms. McCaffrey had a fine review of the previous events for those who were reading these novels as published with time gaps, or who, perhaps, had time gaps to deal with between reads. She refered back to events in context so the reader would remember the peak points.
Overall, I enjoyed the story, although I found …
Read this book in just about a day. It was a bit longer than the previous two novels in this series and picked up exactly where the previous one left off. Again, we had too many characters to keep track of, especially as more were introduced. The story progressed along smoothly, but I don't think the title was apt at all. I also find the cover art to not represent the story much, as I assume it is Damia and Afra on the cover at their Iota Aurigae tower. Who else could it be?
Ms. McCaffrey had a fine review of the previous events for those who were reading these novels as published with time gaps, or who, perhaps, had time gaps to deal with between reads. She refered back to events in context so the reader would remember the peak points.
Overall, I enjoyed the story, although I found one of the unions to be rather trite and I imagine even offensive for some readers. I think you can tell the author is getting older as she writes these novels because certain things you just don't see from younger authors.
This is the fifth an concluding novel in the series of the same name, The Tower and The Hive, and it wraps up that various plot lines. Overall is the final defeat of the Hive in what is a war of extermination where the only question is who will prevail. But there is still conflict to navigate here. As anyone who has studied the history of the two world wars of the 20th century will recognize, once the outcome on the battlefield is settled other scores come up as nations jockey for position. In this case, we have two allies, the Human Nine Star League, and the Mrdini, who both are looking to expand, and who settle planets with the same ecology. Deciding who gets what is problem, made even more difficult by the high birth rates of the Mrdini. And the family of telepaths that have led the …
This is the fifth an concluding novel in the series of the same name, The Tower and The Hive, and it wraps up that various plot lines. Overall is the final defeat of the Hive in what is a war of extermination where the only question is who will prevail. But there is still conflict to navigate here. As anyone who has studied the history of the two world wars of the 20th century will recognize, once the outcome on the battlefield is settled other scores come up as nations jockey for position. In this case, we have two allies, the Human Nine Star League, and the Mrdini, who both are looking to expand, and who settle planets with the same ecology. Deciding who gets what is problem, made even more difficult by the high birth rates of the Mrdini. And the family of telepaths that have led the fight for the Humans is trying to keep things together, but essentially they are just employees of Federation Teleport and Telepath, and their power is resented.
I listened to the audio book version of this novel.
