The Lost Colony (The Long Winter Trilogy Book 3) Kindle Edition

Felt like a waste of timeI was looking forward to some new tech or anything newPointless chase scenes are a waste of time. I am amazed that people that can build a starship cannot prevent dinosaurs from over running their city and default to a cave. BoringThen find out the story is in its 9 th virtual iteration, really at this point who cares. Breaking news matter in space expands and then contracts and repeats. Pure genius

You could tell the author was grasping at straws at how to end the series. Early chapters reminded me of the clickbait stories you see on Facebook , (if you liked that wait til you see the NEXT chapter! Etc). Later chapters became very long and convoluted, including of all things hand drawn blueprints for houses.....yeah you read that right. The addition to the plot by that little tidbit was out of character and very duct taped onto the plot. It was almost laugh out loud bad. I know the book released 10 days later than expected so I'm guessing the last few chapters were very very hurried. I haven't been this disappointed by a series ending since Mass Effect.....and that one ended in lawsuits

This book has really blown my mind -- right until the final chapters I was kind of putting all the things together, but when the author finally revealed what he had intended from the beginning -- wow.This has been one of those books, that are so well-written and so incredibly complex (like a matryoshka doll -- story within a story, within a story etc.), that you literally cannot put them away.This books is very, very good and if you've read anything by A.G. Riddle, and liked those stories, you will like this one (the whole trilogy, by extension, I mean), too. Personally -- I loved it.

I enjoyed the first two books in this series and eagerly anticipated the establishment of the new colony. I gave up before the end because I had no idea of what was taking place. The past was a lie? The present was a mess or is this the future? I don't care.

As a voracious reader, making the transition from traditional books to ebooks happened very quickly. The greatest benefit was the vast array of new authors I was exposed to. Having been an A.G. Riddle fan for some time now, he is one of the more complex authors I admire. His novels manage to include a lot of science, a good portion of philosophical intrique and yet never come across as preachy. The science and philosophy ask the reader to consider viewpoints that may have previously never been considered. The trilogy is an intricate symphony that approaches a multiverse view while asking the question that can what appears right and moral and good ultimately lead to the worst possible result. If you had the power to change something and you did not, are you guilty for what happens? It is hard to write a review to describe the depth and excellence of this entire trilogy without giving away it's substance. To explain how much I enjoyed it, I read it in one sitting and it is a long novel to do so with. And I have not a single regret. There are paths the author takes you where you wonder "did I miss something, did I somehow skip half the book or start it over? Yet as the pieces slowly fit together the genius of the design becomes apparent. I believe this trilogy to destined to be considered a great classic, as it broaches so many timeless questions previous great authors have tried to address and does so with actual science to make it even better and a fantastic read.

What do I do now that I’m finished reading these fantastic tomes? A.G. Riddle has always delivered first rate stories and characters, I certainly look forward to reading his next inspiring work.What I really enjoyed about this last book in the The Long Winter trilogy is that it departs from formulaic science fiction; or at least what I have been reading. I don’t want any spoilers in my review - I really just want to thank Mr. Riddle for writing in the first place. You have brought me many hours of pure joy.

Wow! What a ride! The twists and turns were almost boggling.After all, it is science fiction! I really enjoyed the writing style, very consistent with his other two books.

I devoured this book. Couldn't wait to get to the ending. A selfish part of me wanted group to somehow return to earth and destroy the grid. I know, that ship had already sailed. This final book ties it all together nicely. Now, I wasn't happy at first and was going to give this book bad reviews but once I stepped back and thought about it I realized the book was pretty good. Spoiler Alert: who didn't see the eventual conversion of the people to VR? I mean there was some teensy bit of foreshadowing in the first book. This was where I thought book would end. But it doesn't. It ties it all up nicely and smashes that perpetual loop in a good way.

After the mundane, frankly borering Solar War, I was hoping this would be a return to form...it wasn't. The plot is so unlikely and twisted, it meets itself coming back the other way and that is not a good thing. I ended up speed reading this load of complete and utter dross, it is lacking in any spark of originality that might contribute to an even remotely tolerable SF novel and as such I seriously wonder if someone else wrote the Winter World book that started it all off.I finished this train-wreck of a book, swearing that I would never read anything else by this author, who alongside the pretentious David Brin is now on my banned list. You have been warned.

I've read all 3 books and it goes down hill after the first.The characters are flat, stereotyped (gruff Russian space engineer, American space nerd astronaut, etc) and never developed. Many feel as if they've been forgotten and suddenly re-appear in quiet sections for page filler.Book 3 involves a planet (no spoilers here) where the ecology is flat out impossible - what do those things eat normally? How those eat 100x their own body weight and not get any bigger?The whole thing reads like it was written by a man who's worked out that if can sell a few million copies for a £4 a touch on Amazon then he can probably retire.

At the half way mark reading this last of the trilogy, I would have perhaps have given a 3 or 4 star review. I felt that the riveting storytelling from books 1 and 2 had fizzled out... truth be told, I felt that it had sort of stalled. I kept going and I'm very glad that I did. The characters find their legs and voices onve again and the complex, epoc spanning history of the grid, finally is revealed and its a revelation.Thank you A.G. Riddle for a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable read. I am very appreciative of the writing quality. The standards of English and grammar were very high. Especially enjoyable was the flow of the story, without the jarring and thoroughly annoying typos and lazy description I have seen all to often in Kindle books.In summary - you would be remiss not to follow Mr Riddle. In the same you would be remiss if you don't read more of his work. I'm following my own best advice, and have downloaded the two book series The Extinction Files, starting right now with Pandemic.

I stuck with all three books, just in case, unfortunately it wasn't worth it. Telling the tale alternating between the two characters was initially novel, however by the start of book two it was a very tired format. The character and plot development was poor, lost of the characters where stereotypes and extremely flat.As I progressed through the book I really lost any interest in the characters, they could of all been killed and I wouldn't of cared, there was just no connection with anyone of them.The scifi element was comical, perhaps if you had never picked up a scifi book and are aged five then it may be believable otherwise...On a positive the trilogy was rather inexpensive, that's about all the positive things I can say about the 'saga'.

I loved the first two books in this series and embarked on the final and third book anxious to find out who or what is behind 'The Grid'. James Sinclair and co., have steered survivors of an apocalypse on Earth to the new Planet called Eos only to find that it is not the sanctuary they hoped for. The explanation I had been waiting for didn't come easy and concentration was needed to decipher just who The Grid were and why, after devastating Planet Earth, actually helped a few thousand survivors to relocate to the new planet.Talk about a riveting read - the disasters thrown at the settlers came faster than drinks across a bar during Happy Hour.As I had hoped, Android Oscar made a reappearance after he was dispatched in book two. SPOILER ALERT!!! Things don't go well for him which I was gutted about. This book is a thrill a minute read. A well deserved 5 stars.