Customer Reviews
Best book of the series - By: Martin Pedersen, 25 Nov 2008 
This book is a brilliant conclusion to a fantastic epic.
It took me only two days to gobble down this book, & i enjoyed every second of it.
a nice conclusion to the series.
A solid if unspectacular end to the series - By: J. Beavis, 21 Nov 2008 
So, everything is wrapped up nicelyin the Spiral Arm. But perhaps a little too nicely.
The dialogue is still clunkingly awfulin places, with characters spouting terribly earnest, even pompous lines. The action & invention that compensated for thisin previous novels is still there, but it feels diminished, the enemies vanquished a little too easilyin the end.
I guess an inevitable consequence of having so many characters is that there will be those that are interesting (Basil, Syrix, Davlin) & those who feel pointless or only half drawn (Celli, Cain, most of the Ildirans), & a final volume inevitably has to dwell on everyone, diluting my interest somewhat.
A fitting end - By: E.B. van Koperen, 06 Nov 2008 
A fitting end to a series that seemed like a never ending struggle to fill 7 books.
The characters where & kept being as flat as a pancake.
Most plots totally transparent.
Science dorky & old fashioned.
The end left too many lose ends, too many easy exits.
I got the last bookin this series just because i already have the other 6, which, to be honest, i bought on the pretty cover & some reasonably good reviews of the first book.
I am going back to reading I.M. Banks & Dan Simmons, & i will never ever buy a book of Anderson again.
Should be zero stars - By: M. R. Parashchak, 09 Sep 2008 The author's ideas startec out wellin the first couple of books, but there are just so many inconsistencies & so little sciencein these books that they lose any credibility & become fantasy rather than science fiction. Dwarves, elves & orcsin space you might say. Just hwo fast is this stardtrive? The main players travel vast distancesin such a short space of time, how do trees get into space, & what drives them? Is earth populated by dimwits with no investigative journalism? The chairman (of earth - what a daft concept) is a Stalin type figure who seems to have no opposition at all, the Klikiss insect has fabulous technology, but you never hear of or get to meet an intelligent one, & worst of all, if such a being as a faero existed (that livedin the heart of a sun), then there is no way any flesh being could come anywhere near it & survive. There was no explanation of why the 4 elementals started fighting , & why on earth did the klikiss build the robotsin the first place, with all those drone workers about?
The roamer clans have their space facilities destroyed time after time, yet seem to be able to have everything back to normal by thursday lunchtime! Just totally unbelievable & inconsistent.
A brilliant ending to KJA's Magnum Opus (Of career so far) - By: Mr. Benjamin C. Dodds, 04 Sep 2008 The Ashes of Worlds (Saga of Seven Suns 7)
This book is a brilliant conclusion to a fantastic epic. I really enjoyed this series, I especially like how each chapter follows a specific character, very cleverly done.
If you've read the previous six you'll know the story so far, if you haven't the brilliant & detailed story sof far & glossary fillin all the holes.
This final chapter leads into a final confrontation which is well written & planned out from start to finish.
I would recommend this to any fan of science fiction as Kevin J Anderson's work is a brilliant epic which hasn't really been done before.
