Loosed ends

The more loose ends she ties up, the more threads she creates.

While these stories are pretty self-contained, trying to jump in to this massive world here would be challenging. “Empire of the One” is a better starting point.

A lot of Xen, a little Rael, some Eldon, and several outsiders being suddenly welcomed to a bigger world than they imagined.

Several storylines are brought up to ‘date’, with important characters from previous books settled. Gang members seem to have both multiplied and been subtracted. Various Earth governments make bad decisions while at least one makes a good start.

It just keeps getting bigger... ( )