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Originally Posted by Bigtime

I finished it up on the weekend.

Spoiler!

• R.I.P. Medina Station
• Bobbie going man to man against the Magnetar class ship was a completely badass way for her character to go out.
• I was also a little skeptical about the plan to take out the Laconian orbital shipyards. Necessary but also such a crushing loss of tech for humanity going forward.
• The resistance shipping and assembling 3 Donnager class battleships piece by piece? Freaking beltalowdahs, is there anything they can't do?
• Alex and Naomi getting the Roci into space again =
• Terminator Amos raises so many questions, why does he appear to be more human than the kids in the pen in Laconia after being "saved" by the repair droids? His conversation in the epilogue with Holden, will he be able to act as a new type of Miller for the last book in their war against the Goths? Will he be able to retrofit the Roci's air filters to hand dog hair?
• Will be interesting to see what happens to Duarte and his force like powers, will Elvi be able to make progress with him?
• What role with Teresa Duarte play? Why do I see some chance meeting of her and Naomi's son at some point (just a gut feeling)?
• Overall I really enjoyed it, I was prepared to be completely gutted after the death of Amos, but bringing him back the way they have could make for some interesting angles to be pursued in the last novel. 2020 is apparently the time frame for the ninth and final book. Can't wait.

Spoiler!

Amos is going to be the new Miller for sure. He will have access to all the knowledge of the Gate builders, but isn't bound by the protomolecule directives and retains most of his personality. I'm sure he's going to have a role to play when they Elvi visits the diamond.

With the final book coming up, really wondering how the authors will choose to end this. Will they choose to end this as a story about the failings of humans caused by our hubris? Or will they choose to end this in a more traditional positive way? Next book can't come soon enough.