Earthfall: Homecoming Series, Book 4 Book

I was a bit disappointed after finishing the 3rd book in this series, The Ships of Earth, as I felt I was really reading a story that was turning into just a complex family drama rather than a science fiction saga which is what it seemed to have been billed as. A handful of characters had been added to the story for reasons I couldn't really understand other than to just expand the family dynamic.

However, with this book my opinion of the story changed, and I ended up really enjoying the ride on which it took me The handful of characters I mentioned earlier are fully developed here and play and extremely important role. While the story still focuses on the drama of an expanded dysfunctional family, in this book their roles are successfully related and emotionally linked to a heavy science fiction context.

After the "Earthfall" two new races/cultures are introduced and this for me was when the story really started to get good. It reminded me of why I like to read science fiction in the first place. Learning about the new cultures of the "Angles" and the "Diggers" was fascinating and the humans interaction with them kept my interest. I was fully engaged with the plights of all 3 cultures. Characters are brought to life even more than that had been previously (and that's saying a lot considering how developed many of them already were). In addition, this book also contained a little more excitement/action than the previous books had.

All these factors contributed to a great reading experience!