Gary's Reviews > Mountain of Black Glass

While book three rated the same stars as book two in the series, it is worlds better to read. And the reason for that is there are fewer worlds. Rather than just throwing as much of his imagination at us as he can, in this book Mr. Williams actually only presents a few worlds, and time is left for some really decent character development and for plot formation. It was really refreshing to have "story" once again become part of the, well, story...

Three minor notations:

*dispersed character and plot elements begin to coalesce into a whole;

*editing skills (at least in the first half of the book) were once again an issue. It appeared as if editing was done in batches, then cut&paste back together. Four or five time where this batch cut&paste occurred there was an overlap of two to three words - up to an overlap of half a sentence. This forces the reader to reread, then figure out the overlapping duplication and manually/mentally erase the repetition to bring sensibility back to the narrative flow.

*loved the way the "House" VR was approached and described (with its nod to nation/state cultures). One of my personal favorites.