![]() ![]() Also, just when we hoped that Thorn and Ophelia would be able to work together finally to solve the mystery, they must be separated again. So many of the other characters whom we’ve enjoyed are missing too, and the new characters don’t have the same attractions. While it is wonderful that Ophelia and Thorn have finally fallen for each other, there is no courtly intrigue and little of the politics that so enlivened the other novels. ![]() Sadly, the plot descends into overcomplexity, and jettisons much of what was so wonderful about the first two volumes in particular. As all this begins to happen, the world of Babel and the surrounding minor arks begins to shatter, whole chunks start to get sucked into nothingness, is it the echoes, which Ophelia must work out how to control? Ophelia will aim to enter as a patient, knowing she may never come out. They know that resolution of the mystery of ‘God’ and the ‘Other’ lies in ‘The Deviations Observatory’ which is to all intensive purposes like an asylum of old but with strange therapies. The final volume begins where the third left off, with Ophelia and Thorn reunited at Babel. ![]()
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