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Still a noteworthy series, these final two books, but not a pair which I enjoyed nearly as much as The Many-Coloured Land or The Golden Torc. While the prose and world-building continued to be pretty damn strong, this final half of The Pliocene Saga just felt... sloppy, I suppose.My biggest frustration was how rushed to a conclusion within the last thirty some-odd pages (not a lot, when together the book[s] amounted to nearly 800 pages total). After spending a solid amount of time building up the threat which the Adversary presented, all of a sudden we were done. Done? Wait, did I skip pages? Nope! Just a cut and dry sweeping off of characters to their various corners, leaving quite a few folks who'd undergone notable screen time to stay in the aether -- not to mention hanging plot threads. (view spoiler)[What of the Howlers? What of all those ominous references to Felice and Culleket locked away in a sort of stasis? What of Aiken's going super saiyan with Marc Remillard's assistance, an act which felt like it came out of left field? Nodonn's son with the low-life woman, and Mercy's to-be-royal daughter? (hide spoiler)] A lot, then, got left hanging in the wind.My takeaway after reading these books is that the power of spontaneously-developed love cures a lot of things, regardless of whether or not it's feasibly developed. I'm fond of and glad that I read the series, but after such a strong first half, I'm left feeling as though the author and I may have experienced two very different latter stories.