This book was fine. Maybe it’s the best of the series or maybe I just couldn’t care as much toward the end. I can respect that the author was trying something new. From in interview included in the second audiobook Card talks about “not knowing where the story was going” and making it up as he wrote each scene. He also talked about wanting to break all the preconceived rules of sci-fi and time travel. And it was very clear from the story that this was his intention. It just didn’t make for a good book. Between the surface level “discussions” about morality that were almost immediately undercut or reversed by the characters own actions, the lack of consistency in the rules that govern the characters abilities, the demoralizing void where character growth should have been, and Mary Sue-ness of it all that completely erased any and all stakes from the story, I can not recommend this book or the series as a whole

The series progressively got less enjoyable by the end but you have to give the last one a shot to end it all. Terrific narration and writing, just the last book took the story too far and made it too big. I loved the first book, Pathfinder.

Necessary book to finish Book 2 as it left things hanging. This was good but not great. Confusing as there ends us to be many versions of each of the characters. A paper layout of all of the divergent characters would help but since this is an AUDIO book that just is not possible. Logic in how thing are and will be in the future are illogical as enemies tend to retain their hatred for each other and not become buddy buddy. Aliens, mice and men just ARE NOT going to get along no matter how much you try. They hate each other, they try to kill each other and want to manipulate each other. NOT a good solution. Separate Folds for individual species is the only solution.

While the story was very well written, and very enjoyable overall, occasionally Card got lost in the details which led to long long long sections of theoretical blah de blah dealing with the finer points of time travel.