Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Yes, spoilers. This book ended due to laziness and lack of imagination by the author. The book was clever, smart, and interesting, the story of an engineer thrust into command and defense of a city, for an Empire he does not love. His tricks, his cleverness, his engineering, are paramount. The attackers create a personal dynamic. The book has built towards some sort of resolution, and you become very excited to finish. Suddenly the main character gets a headache and is very tired and things are fuzzy from his point of view. During the final assault! Suddenly a deux ex machine force arrives to save the day. Suddenly, the author loses interest in his own characters, and we get an end note from a thousand years later. No telling of the assault, no more engineering solutions, no perspicacity or action from the main character. The author failed and he failed due to lack of imagination. The book ends with a huge "whatever" from an author who just basically quit on his own story. I gave it two stars because it had promise and held that promise for 4/5 of the book, but why buy this kind of crashing disappointment?