Really is the end of the seaaon and series
585723
I have not started to watch season 5 yet.. but this makes a nice conclusion to the series.  I don't think they can top this ending.
3282282
I loved this series and am disappointed it is done.  But, in the last episode, it ended the way it should, with finality and no cliffhanger.  I liked that.
2042264
It has been said that all good things must come to an end.  It was a good end to the series.  I felt that I had closure for all if the main characters.
1993511
**** SLIGHT SPOILERS involved with this review ****

After six books in this series, there just wasn't enough left to add to the story line as a whole.  The author did a wise thing by wrapping this series up in this seventh book...it was time.

It seemed this wrap-up book of a 7 book series was written quickly, with a lot of predictable scenarios within the context of the story line.  Bishop, Terry and Hunter are on the run and heading for Utah. They're slowed down by various situations to add drama to the story.  It didn't begin to get stupid until they drove into Crawford.  After six books of dipicting Bishop as this guy who follows his "gut feelings" and adheres to that type of warning system that has saved his life many times, he chooses to NOT follow this warning when he senses something wrong about the preacher and the people from the bus.  This whole scenerio goes totally against what we've read about Bishop for the past 6 novels.  It makes no sense whatsoever.  And the the story line drags on and on about getting out of the camp and moving on.  I saw this entire part as just filler while Nick is trying to clear Bishop's name.

I really didn't care for the way the author dipicted and portrayed Christians in this book.  But then, maybe he had a desire to present his way of thinking about Christians and this was his perfect way of demeaning them and presenting them as crazy, evil and as a cult.  I fully understand there are cults and groups of people using the name of religion to assist in the cause of their agenda.  But it was pretty clear in this book exactly who the author was pinpointing his mindset towards.

And the 80 mph road race to get to Fort Bliss was the ultimate finale in wrapping this highly charged seventh book up.  With thuggies trying to take Bishop out, Terry dying on the backseat and Hunter sleeping in his carseat, it provided the perfect storm for adrenalin induced survival.  One has to wonder if Bishop was going to get to Ft. Bliss in time to save Terry. ????

A good ending to a series.  Yes, it is the end of this series.  The ending says so...it states "The End" at the end.  Even the author stated this was the last book of this series.  For those of you waiting for the 8th book of this series...you're going to be disappointed.
4027152
This final series nicely tied up the loose ends and even had a satisfying ending. I came across the original Inuyasha on the now defunct "Adult-Swim" on the Cartoon Network cable channel. Due to various reasons, I did not see the 7th season until only recently, so I was completely surprised the 7th was not the last series. I took a new look at the series recently with my 10-year old son and was *very* surprised the last episode of season 7 left the story dangling. He and I were much relieved to get "The Final Act" from Amazon. We both enjoyed the closure.
2685255
Im so sad to have finally caught up to the most recently released book in this series.  I could easily read another 10 of these books and never get tired of the Kate and Curran show.

This book was pretty much all the build up to the showdown weve been waiting for since the start of the series.  No, this isn't where it ends.  No, you don't get everything tied up in a neat bow.  But, yes, there is a lot of life and death danger thrown into one book.  Just about everyone gets thrown into this mess, with the exception of the dog.  We finally get the much needed Saiman in good Saiman fashion.  Im not really even sure where to begin except with the looming danger.  Sure, its always there, but in this case the witch oracle has predicted almost certain death for Kate, her future imaginary kid, and/or Curran.  Everyone could die, but what else is new?

In an effort to change the future (i.e. Back to the Future style), Kate tries to make some pretty terrifying choices to go outside whats expected.  This leads us back to some pretty terrible places, tests Curran and Kates relationship, and leads to some pretty surreal family discussions.  Kate is still really powerful (scarily so) and after her dad kidnaps Saiman, its pretty clear that war is on the horizon.  This book managed to make me almost sympathetic to Kates dad.  Yes, hes really evil.  Yes, I know I shouldnt like him, but somehow the author tricked me into it!

The book ends pretty much how you would expect it to end (you know, since this isn't the last book in the series), but I spent a lot of time waiting for some really horrible things to happen.  With that in mind, it was almost disappointing (?) that not that many people died.  Is that horrible?  This book series has messed with my expectations.
3810045
Enjoyed the final book of this series of books, but my question is are we sure that this was the last adventure of captain Maddox.  I think we have not seen the last of this group or the new men
1069483
The last of the 3 book series.  I'll start by saying that I hated to see it end, it left me with a lot of questions.  This book shows that no matter how well you are prepared, everything can come to an end quickly.  For the towns people of Enola things have gone from bad to worse.  With the winter weather setting in and the food running low, almost all hope is lost.  But when the military steps forward and tells them the plans of rebuilding the nation a little hope is restored to everyone.  The book follows the youngest of the sons as he becomes the man of the house.  His trials and tribulations with what he has done and what he will have to do in the future.  It does a very good job reminding everyone that the future is not guaranteed and full of uncertainty not only in a post nuclear war society, but in every day life.  Like I said earlier, I was sad to see this series end.  So many questions were left unanswered, and just like in the real world there will not always be a fairy tell ending.
2993270
I really loved this series and am a bit sad that it has ended but as the say all great things have to end sometime and I really like this ending.
It is a series I know Im going to read again in the future and I think that is saying enough.
2836786
They say all good things must come to an end, and sadly, this series has now ended. As usual, Moira investigates a murder by innocently asking questions, but this time her freedom is on the line. The mystery was good, the side stories were amusing, and OMG the motive was a bit creepy. So overall, a great book, but bittersweet since the series is done.
1537994
I got this in exchange of an  honest review, I liked this series a lot and it was an amazing way to end it, great events for the end read it to know worth the time
3055774
As the final episode ended I could say absolutely nothing.  I sat in silence for several seconds before I was slowly filled with a sweet sense of fulfillment.  You must buy this tape.  You must buy Lain.  Why? Because  it is simply amazing.  Though for a while I had some issues with the  perhaps too tidy ending, It didn't matter to me for two reasons. First of  all, there really was no better way to end thie series and second, I was  too happy to care.  The plot of Lain has always been secondary.  The  primary goal of the series' creators was to make us love Lain as a person.  I almost felt like I knew Lain by the end, and I feel that the creators  suceeded masterfully in their goal.  You know enough.  See Lain. If you  have seen it, see it again.
3571234
SPOILERS SPOILERS-  I loved this series until the end of this book.  No I won't read anymore.  When you are sold out to some of the characters and really care and then the author does something for shock value well that does it for me.  Wish I would have just stopped with the last book.  I feel depressed and betrayed.  I can read the news and feel like this.  I would rather that my books leave me feeling good.
2162031
This conclusion to the Dead series finally puts us all out of our misery. This unrealistic portrayal of the FBI and the agents who apparently have no moral values that they will kill each other, sleep with each other and even participate in the trade of exporting girls for sex finally comes to a conclusion. Of course we are given a whirlwind trip around John Mancini's office where we find that every other agent is either dating another one or married to another. How silly is that? When we finally get past what is probably the sappiest storyline for the whole series with Evan trying ever so hard to be the knight in shinning armor to give Annie closure to the death of her previous love, the most decent plot of the series unravels. Stewart appears to have a formula that somewhat works if she can force us to believe that the FBI is run by a bunch of sex crazed , bumbling idiots. There is very little romance and unlike some of the previous books, Stewart spares most of the sexcapades and concentrates on the story line. It's amazing how much more interesting a book can be when it doesn't sex you to death. If you can get it for a penny, like I did, it might be worth a read if you have absolutely nothing better to do...
943222
Many of us have been waiting for years (going on six now) for book five in this series which will now be at least seven books long. Let's see, do the math, at six year intervals it will be 2023 before we see an end in sight. That's providing that he really does have book five finished by the end of the year (2011). I don't know about anyone else, but I'm done. He or I will likely be dead before he finishes. Time to move on.
2833902
To Green Angel Tower (Part 2) is Tad Williams' final book in the epic Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series.  The happy ending attempts to lift the entire series above its shortcomings, and it achieves that in it's own rose-colored way.

First, let me say that I'm pleased that Williams truly ended the series.  After the wild success of the Wheel Of Time and A Song Of Fire And Ice series, publishers have become increasingly indulgent with authors, allowing them to stretch their series out far beyond what is necessary.  Williams instead chooses to wrap his series up.  Sad to say, but that is worth note.

With that, I'm also (mostly) pleased with how Williams chose to wrap up his series.  All plot threads converged on the climactic ending, and all major players contributed both action and back story.  This is also rare, though the juggling of so many disparate pieces dilutes the overarching story a bit and makes it a bit hard to follow.  While I'm an admitted sucker for happy endings, some aspects of the ending were a bit too sugar-coated for me.

Unfortunately, the shortcomings of the series also come into stark focus on this last book. Williams' over reliance on his own plot devices saps much imagination out of the story.  How many sets of characters on multiple occasions entered the Aldheorte forest throughout the series, or staggered blindly through tunnels?  How many chapters consisted of 15-20 pages of tedious travelogue or exposition only to be punctuated with two pages of action and a cliffhanger ending?  How many battles are interrupted by the POV character being knocked unconscious, with the rest of the battle told in summary by a different character after the fact?  How many times is one character saved by another character who was following the first character without his or her knowledge?  One gets the sense that Williams became dissatisfied with his own writing at times and tried to work around it.

The most grating problem is the pacing.  Even three books into the series (four if you count the third book as two volumes), Williams' pacing leaves you frustrated.  The battle to retake Naglimund, which should have been told in one epic chapter, was instead chopped up into several and then dispersed throughout several other plot lines. As a result, that battle falls completely flat.  Simon and Miriamele's flight from Prince Josua's camp wreaks of yet more travelogue and side-adventures that don't contribute to the main arc.  Simon's wandering through the tunnels, capture by Inch, and astral projection into the void were dragged out far too long, and some of it could have been excised for a tighter story.  Therein lies the greatest weakness of this otherwise great series.  The author drags everything out far too long.  The entire series could have been cut down by 30%, certain extraneous plots eliminated, and you can imagine how much tighter and more thrilling the story would have been.

Overall, I'm glad I read this series.  Despite its shortcomings, it's too-happy ending, and the nagging thought that this would perhaps be better suited as a teen or pre-teen epic series, it is a richly woven tale worth reading.
199495
The end was a big disappointment. The arcs of the previous books are coming to an end. Finally, we found out what happened to Jonas and Gabe after the ending if The Giver which leaves the reader frustrated. The four books combine in a surprisingly good way. I wasn't expecting Jonas life to end up like that, but at least I got my suspicion from The Message confirmed. The story needs an epilogue, preferably one where Claire goes back to Einar or gets him to come with her. A mother and son reunion would have also been great.

I heard the whole series so it was hard to miss the word meticulously. The author has a thing for this word. I think that meticulously is one of the most written words in the book.