This series felt drawn out and the third book was not as good as the first two, in my opinion. Chop out part of book 2 and insert part of book three and it would have been better.

This was a fun series to read. I thought that the voice changed substantially between book 1 and book 3. I still enjoyed the wonderful character development - the friendship between Mac and Emily, the creative aliens and their quirks. But it felt to me like we went from Space Opera to something Doug Adams might have written over the course of the series. Like I said, still fun to rea.

A very satisfying culmination of a series I enjoyed a lot. Julie Czerneda has a real gift for making me connect with her characters, and although her pacing isn't perfect, I really enjoyed this book and this series.

This was a very good wrap up of the 3-part story. The characters are lively and believable. There is lots of drama, interspecies adventures, the drive for truth and justice, romance, spies and ecological themes.

Many thanks to Andrea G.H. for the recommendation of this author and her series.

Not in a reviewin' mood, but I enjoyed this.

What a bizarre series. Such a ... logistical style. Everything is about organising meetings, people oversleeping and missing meetings, meetings getting interrupted by new information, people unable to make meetings because of Random Alien Behaviour, people misinterpreting each other in meetings... Mac spends 99% of this book trying to get to Planet Myriam. Spoilernotaspoiler: she doesn't actually get there in the end, but saves the galaxy while having meetings on the ship that's going there.

One section stood out from the rest: the escapade to the derelict Dryhn ship. That had the scariest, most touching, and most a-ha moments out of the entire book. In fact, pretty much every page leading up to that feels like build-up filler in comparison. And the last few paragraphs of that section end with... you guessed it... the logistics of re-docking with the main fleet.

So I'm not sure what to make of the whole thing. I liked it, perhaps because I like meetings, and science, and the characters. But I really wouldn't know who to recommend it to.

Good trilogy all around, really good trilogy if you are a biology nerd (like me.)

First comment about this book is, make sure you have read the first two books in the series, I think you will struggle to follow things if you haven't.

Regeneration was okay and it was probably my least favourite book in the trilogy. The book starts slow, I found most of the first 25% boring, it just didn't go anywhere fast. This was very similar to Survival and like Survival it picked up and became quite a page turner. However when it reached the end I had difficulty following it and found it a disappointment.

As for the trilogy overall I liked it, but you must read the books in order because despite their thickness there is not a lot of recaps. Also don't leave too long between each book, there are many characters you need to follow. With the first and third books I found them slow going to start, but they picked up. I thought the second book was the best of the three. Would I read any more of Czernada's work? May be, but not for a while, they are just too thick for me and require and lot of patience.

Bought this ebook at fictionwise, but the publisher decided they wanted more money. Fictionwise refunded my money.

I guess I'm over this series already. I typically don't like aliens with my sci-fi but Ms. Czerneda brought me into the fold by doing such a natural job of weaving their characters into her first two books. But this third one broke the spell somehow. I'd just had enough and took it back to the library unfinished.

The conclusion of a trilogy, I always feel the need to give both a review of the book and the trilogy overall. Overall the trilogy is imaginative, especially with its inventions of aliens and alien culture. One of the most entertaining parts for me was the cultural interactions and often misunderstandings that came about from differences. Too often sci-fi just goes with everyone being bipedal and have the same frame of reference for thinking and these books didn't stick to that. The differences were amusings, maddening, and occasionally dangerous. However, it took me much longer to finish this book compared to the previous two because I felt it got too wrapped up and in love with meandering through all that to get to the wrapping up of the saga. The amount of pages spent on Mac just making final rounds to leave Earth were in the long run tedious. I felt like the author spent so much time on all these detours and extensions that she suddenly realized she was 2/3 of the novel in and really needed to build a way out. I was left feeling the ending was muddled and not well explained or covered. I would've wanted to know more about the Myrokynay besides the pieced together conjectures of Mac and the IU. Getting the hell off Earth immediately and actually learning about the Survivor Legend would've made this more interesting as well than just dangling it at the end like a possible link to another trilogy. It's not a bad book, I just wish it had been better and definitely nailed the ending much better than it did.

An excelllent finale for this series, continuing the character studies and biological extrapolations. Mac is an engaging, complex character who carries the story skillfully and Myg and Mudge are fleshed out beyond caricatures. The themes of determination and sacrifice continue in this final volume.