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Booklog 26/2021: John Scalzi: The End of All Things – Old Man's War #6
I had it in my head that The Old Man's War sequence was a trilogy, so when I saw this was the concluding book I grabbed it and read it, only realising when I was too far into the book to stop, that the OMW series has SIX books, and so I was reading the final one out of sequence. Bummer. I hate that. The good thing is that even though I skipped from Book 2 to Book 6, I wasn't left behind, so yes, you could potentially read it as a standalone if you really wanted to. Harry Wilson (from Old man's War and Ghost Brigades) is a point of view character, but then the story skips forward as a collection of novellas, each moving forward the reconciliation between the Colonial Union, Earth and the Conclave. I enjoyed revisiting Harry Wilson, and meeting Ode Abumwe and Hafte Sorvalh – both strong and clever women. There's a lot of politicking, but it's very enjoyable… now all I have to do is go back and read the three books that I missed.