The next part in the Diving series. This continues the story started in the earlier books – or more or less doesn’t. It consists of separate stories which happen at different times in the timeline of the series, and it doesn’t involve the “Boss”, the main character in most of the other books, at all. We learn what happened “behind the scenes” during some events of the other books. There is also a near-disastrous expedition to the world where the fifth part of the series, The Falls, happened thousands (?) of years earlier. At this time, it was supposed to be an abandoned base. When it is explored, it turns out that there is a new player in the game, something the protagonist of the series had not been aware of, and the new, unknown, force wants to guard that old base at any cost with a ragtag but huge fleet of spaceships with curious weapons, some old, but some working with an unknown mechanism.
For the most part, the book was a very good story, and gave a lot of light to the motivations of some of the characters. The last part of the book was easily the worst – the exploration trip to the old base was interesting, but it was overly dramatic with too much Star-Wars-style fighting, manual flying through a debris field, and ass-pulling of implausible distraction methods. In spite of that, the book left me with a positive feeling, and I am looking forward to the next parts. Unfortunately, the next book apparently isn’t a direct sequel.
428 pp
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