-0.5 for being overly long. Some parts really dragged (Mortonridge, Navy meetings), whilst others were returned too far infrequently (Dariat, Jay).
-0.5 for the far too neat conclusion. After such an incredibly epic trilogy seeing everything resolved easily within a few pages was disappointing, although I can't imagine any ending feeling sufficiently epic.
-1.0 for Joshua. Eurgh. SpoilerI'm glad that he chose Cricklake over Lady Macbeth rather than Lousie travelling with him, which I'd been dreading since she'd acquired neural nanonics, but that didn't make up for him being irritatingly perfect, being beloved by all and facing basically no consequences for the way he treated people in the earlier books.