Hmmm...there's honestly not much to say about this book other than it continues the story in the first book. My previous complaints about Emergence carry through this volume as well. I guess the main problem is I can't really tell what the author building up to (surely it must be something if there are two other parts to the Night's Dawn trilogy). Sure, everybody is going to band together and defeat the Reality Dysfunction but I have absolutely no inkling, not even a speck, of how that might be done. I don't really even know what the nature of the Reality Dysfuction is and I haven't been given many tantalizing clues that make me want to read more to find out.
I will say that we did get a couple of interesting, although brief, glimpses of the Laymil xenocs in Expansion through the sensory data stored in the artifact recovered by Joshua Calvert. Going into this series expecting something akin to David Brin's
Uplift novels was clearly a silly assumption on my part.
Overall, I'm torn about whether I want to invest the time to read more of the series. I did
PBS the next volume, but I've put it on the back burner as I currently have a 3 foot pile of other books that I'd rather read first.
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