ISBN: 9781503902459
Amazon ID: B077XBML85
This is the final part of the Extracted trilogy, and I was looking forward to it mainly because it meant the story would be over and done with, and I could get on with reading things which actually get somewhere and make progress, instead of reading page after page of pointless and/or mystifying activity.
The first book was merely an introduction to a story, and was at least 4 times longer than it should have been. Far too many things were unexplained, and by the end of the book the reader has no idea of what the point of the story is or even why the three main characters have been brought together.
In the second book we find out why these characters have met up, and by the end of the book they do actually accomplish something, which feels like the story has started happening, but there's still far too much preparation and activity with no story development taking place.
It should be abridged to 50% of its length, because as it is there's simply no feeling of pace or progression until you get to the very last chapters.
In this final book there continues to be a fair amount of action - but still for unexplained reasons. There is no indication to the reader of what the characters are ultimately trying to achieve.
The story also becomes increasingly confusing and complicated to follow, as characters move back and forth in time, either meeting other characters and killing them (only for that character to turn up again later in the story, in a timeline they didn't get killed in) or else meeting themselves (and occasionally killing themselves too).
At the end of the book, there is still no conclusion to the story. It's as though the author decided to write about time travel, but had no plot in mind with a start, a middle and an end.
Book one is a start.
Book two is a middle, when you at least find out what the over-long introduction was for.
Book three continues, but doesn't provide an end.
All in all, a very dissatisfying waste of time.
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