Patriarch's Hope

Feintuch is back to form with Patriach's Hope - once again Nicholas Seafort provides our sole perspective, this time as Secretary General. The biggest surprise of the book is that Seafort is finally happy - or at least more content than he has been at any previous point in the series. It can't last of course - Feintuch always finds new ways to make Seafort Suffer, and this novel is no exception.

The environmentalist message is a bit heavy-handed at times and not particularly nuanced, but it also culminates in the most emotionally charged passage where Seafort visits a place that was once important to him and discovers that not all is as it once was.