Adding it, in fact, created confusion because I wasn’t sure why all these characters were suddenly tossed into the mix, and they didn’t contribute to my overall understanding of the plot.The POV issue also created a terrible timeline problem. Cutting it out wouldn’t have resulted in any confusion. They were there solely to show the reader what was happening in places the reader wouldn’t otherwise see.And this was a mistake, in my opinion, because frankly, most of the information from those POVs wasn’t necessary. Some characters had more prominent roles than others, sure, but seemingly random characters we had never met before ended up with POV roles, and they didn’t even do anything substantial to progress the plot. And there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the POV usage. There were so many POVs that by the time I got back around to one person after going through them all, I had forgotten what that person was doing. I really don’t.I suppose I’ll just catalogue all my issues in order of when I noticed them.First off, there were way too many POVs in this story. And this one was plain awful.I don’t understand how this happened. The winner will be the last one standing, and his prize is the final and most terrible solitude this world has ever known.What happened to this series? The first book in this trilogy was great! The second book was pretty good. They are in a desperate race toward the final death. Too selfish to live in peace, and too proud to stop our wars long after they ceased to have any real meaning.The only thing left of any value on this entire planet is their lives, but that’s not worth anything while the other guy still has his, so they kill each other. Not because it was time, not because the world moved past us, but because we, as a people, were fools. Human thought-the glorious zenith of five billion years of evolution-will go out like a candle, gone forever. The world will forget that we were ever here. Rivers will keep flowing, the sun and the moon will keep turning, vines will creep up across the cars and the concrete. The world will go on, the planet and the life that lives on it. “Do you know what’s going to happen when the world ends? We call it the end of the world, but it’s only the end of us.

Ruins dan wells