
The Naked God
Night's Dawn Trilogy, Book 3
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John Lee
The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the "possessed" to infiltrate more worlds.
Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own.
The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle, the kind that hasn't been seen by humankind for 600 years; then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction. Joshua Calvert and Syrinx fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God, which an alien race believes holds the key to overthrowing the possessed.
The Naked God is the brilliant climax to Peter F. Hamilton's awe-inspiring Night's Dawn trilogy.
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Epic vision and challenging read
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By now, you should really care about the main characters. And understand them. Nothing much here is a surprise. Until the end. Want spoilers? I’ll put something about story resolution at the end of my review.
I love John Lee. I could happily listen to him read a dictionary. There’s something about that voice and rhythm. It feels like you’re tucked into bed and cozy, while the penultimate protector figure reads you a goodnight story. But not cramps or daddy. More like... the love of your life, or someone who you wish was. Then there are those accents. This guy can do just about anything with his voice. Except sound female. Most of the time, that’s ok. There is a slight difference for female characters, a bit softer and quieter.
But for this trilogy, he just wasn’t at his best. He would sometimes begin a scene with separate accents, and then later they would be lost so you didn’t always know right away who was speaking. Also, in the last 3 hours or so, there are a few times he becomes inexplicably quiet, as if someone turned down the volume. By the time the sentence is over, he’s back to normal. Poor editing? And yes, there are definitely times when there is no extra pause to signal a new scene or chapter.
But that voice!
Why 4 stars? My rating is based on how much I enjoyed the experience, but with a reluctant deduction for the not-so-great moments of narrating, and the ending. Ready for spoilers?
***SPOILERS!***
OK, no real spoilers, just...
The ending. After everything we have been through, the darkness and sex and technical explanations, we deserved a break, right? But a magical fairytale ending? It was satisfying, but not. Also, a character says Quinn Dexter isn’t intelligent enough to pull off his plan, and suddenly everyone has forgotten just how eerily too smart for the world’s good he has been. And thus his downfall is handed over by a magical being who is completely smug with the knowledge of Quinn’s stupidity.... Dexter is not Aladdin’s Jafar! Well, except for at the end apparently.
Satisfying Ending of a Great Trilogy
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Epic!
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But the ending is bad. Like, really, REALLY bad. Worse than how Wolf Locke ends his stories. The way that the plot had been approaching the solution to a incredibly philosophical dilemma was always clearly too materialistic to provide a satisfactory concussion to this series. Even though every character they come across keeps saying that science won't solve the issue and that humanity needs to find a moral answer to possession and the Beyond, never once does the story even stray near anything of the sort. All anyone is trying to do is to receive a neatly packaged answer from an ascended species or find a scientific method to fight the souls in the Beyond. It was always a weird juxtaposition, but the phenomenal story telling was able to let me overlook it for most of the story.
But at the end of the day, the solution humanity finds is Deus-Ex-Machina-ed to them. LITERALLY. They find a God-Machine, and ask it for the answer, and then BOOM, philosophical climax over. Sure, its a bit more complex than that, and the implementation is still up to them, but Jesus Christ that's almost painfully unimaginative. NO philosophical revelation from their experiences, NO moral uplifting through introspection, NO grand struggle to understand themselves, just a clean answer from soulless machine.
I'm not even that mad about the solution, even through it was a pretty bland one (honesty, "just believe in yourself"?? 130 hours of a grand Sci-Fi adventure and we get what the Wizard of Oz told Dorthy??? You do know real-world morality and philosophy is more complex than that of a children's play, right??), but the way that the characters obtained it was utterly boring. Sure the journey was fun, sure the characters were great, but to simply and so literally Deus-Ex-Machina the answer is so hollow. It made the whole struggle, which was painted to be a critical turning point by the other ascended species, feel like just a box on a checklist. It wasn't even a struggle, really. No one made a brilliant decision that saved the day, no one found enlightenment, they just...found it, like a lost sock, and by almost pure chance at that.
I could kinda see it coming, by the way that the characters keep searching for the answer like it was a physical item instead of a philosophy (i.e. how they asked the Kiint and Tinkerbell), and by how the ascended species kept refusing to give them the answer (as if it was something you COULD give), but it's still very disappointing. I couldn't even finish the last hour and a half I was so disgusted by the "naked god". Maybe it gets better, maybe humanity earns the victory in the end, but I honestly can't believe that'll happen and can't bring myself to find out. I mean, honestly, an author of Peter Hamilton's skill using a (literal and literary) Deus-Ex-Machina is actually insulting.
Didn't even have most of our POV character meet each other. Hell, only like 5 of them know the other's exist at all. Just sad.
TL;DR: Great story, great characters, and a literal Deus Ex Machina to solve it all. I mean, you could see it coming from book 1, but I'm not being hyperbolic when I say "literal". Also, no serious POV character crossovers, so much for their individual character development was kinda for nothing.
Wonderful Story, but completely failed the landing
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Trilogy of Perfection
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Great characters, great plot, and a fantastic ending.
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All that being said, the entire series was very immersive, very adventurous, and made for a wonderful sci-fi tale. I like the incorporation of theology, culture, ethics, and xenophilosophy. I can't wait to encounter books of a similar ilk.
Stick it out... the whole series is worth it
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The ending feels overly conjured given the build up, but it works. Will listen again in a few years just to see what I missed.
awesome series
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I'd recommend reading Pandoras star and Judas unchained first, if this is your first Hamilton experience (though anyone reading this probably already read the first two books in ths series). It's a bit slow paced, but thar grows on you with Hamilton. And his books will only get better when you read them again!
Demanding but rewarding indeed
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