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Title: As low as 2 stars? Here's why.
Review: Don't get me wrong. Heaven's reach is not a total failure in itself. It took me a while to understand why I was so disappointed when I finished the book. I can only agree with reviews who say the ending is Grand. But that's not the point. The real problem of the book is, the ending has nothing to do with the rest of the uplift novels. With what's in this book, Brin could have written (should have written) another uplift line. The book just does not belong there. Everything Brin has ENTITLED us to expect from the previous books just isn't there. I wanted to read more about all the wonderful characters who had been so well developed that they had become my friends and my foes. I wanted to know what happens to them, not what happens to the universe. Might it possible to ask David Brin to rewrite this third book, as the first two were so wonderful?
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