When one of my friends put me onto this series (black ocean in general, not just passage of time) I’ll admit that I was a little skeptical at first, but have since shed my skepticism and have become quite an avid fan, having purchased every other collection after finishing the first one, and also picking up several of the other series just because I enjoy the writing style that much.
I think my only real complaint is that each individual installment is so short. I would love longer individual books in the stories. 5 to 8 hours for a book just doesn’t feel like it’s long enough for each installment. I would love for there to be more content in each book, the best part of the writing is the characters and I would love to have more time with each of the characters. This book kind of felt like some of the B cast took a backseat. Like Mindy got the nanobots, but we didn’t get any of her perspective as the nanobots began to enhance her and considering it seems like she’s going for a different modification than either Daphne or Jessie and it would have been nice to get more from her perspective. I understand that there was quite a lot to balance, and that really wasn’t the main plot of this particular book, the sub plot was kind of taken up by Carl the two wizards with him, but even they felt like they kinda took a backseat. I don’t know, this particular book feels like the odd one out in terms of the rest of the series. Like if every other book averages a nine, this was closer to like a 7 1/2. It’s not bad, it just feels not as good. It’s not gonna stop me from getting the next book when that releases.