after that it steadily goes down. Not abruptly, luckily, but it seems that the author had specific amount of pages to present , so at some point he just started filling them: with gore, with utterly unnecessary “philosophy” lessons from Fire and Rock 🤦, everything could have been much more dynamic, because there are interesting characters and some narratives they were interesting. I personally was fine with the AI aspect, until it became a beautiful woman 🤦🤦🤦. Yeah, author’s obsession with beautiful women and handsome man at some point becomes obvious and laughable. I will finish the series, so so hope somewhere on their way from Chicago to California this bunch finds their mojo and the author – his.