by John Christopher
I could cut a long review short: 'The Tripod Trilogy' is a terrific sf series for the young ones, the darkest revelation of a post-tripod-conquest world is, obviously, that women don't matter at all. Where does that leave all the young men? I read these books when I was 11 or 12 and I can't remember...
Okay, but definitely the weakest of the trilogy. Felt more like a summary of how everything got resolved than its own story, and Will is increasingly hard to like. His heedlessness and sulking and self-absorption seem correct when he's thirteen; less understandable (or even believable) when he's in ...
This is the third and last of the "Tripod" trilogy, picking up almost exactly where "City of Gold and Lead" left off. Will has returned to the resistance base camp in the Swiss Alps. Enough information is passed on about the Masters (who ride in Tripods when outside of their city) and their cities...
Not as good as the second one. Will repeatedly getting taught the importance of discipline becomes really preachy and annoying after a while. The ending is ok though. Some other interesting things about this series might be its complete absence of female characters except for helpless victims, often...
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