An all-around solid series. This one even more macro, reducing previously more granular events to shorthand as days become years, tracing the final trajectory of the generation we have spent our time with. This, mostly, worked for me.

The prose lack what I personally prefer. It lacks description and is accessible in its diction, but this creates a fairly bland, out-of-the-way style. It’s just invisible. There are some moments that definitely landed in the past, usually well plot beats that go granular due to their importance. It still kind of does this, but less often. Epic in scope, it zooms in less, and it simply has to, or risk not chronicling everything it wants to. Because I rarely felt connected to the characters, and I get my fix via the drama, this was like consuming 6 seasons of a tv show, mainlined. At first it’s a bit overwhelming, but then it’s momentum is apparent and hard to put down.

As a side note: I really hope the TV show happens because Lee does not do much to set a scene. Relying on the reader to populate everything themselves. I’d love to see a visual representation of this world. Especially in the past, where more than its toes are dipped into historical fiction.