We are and always will be judgmental and ready for a fight it seems, it just depends who we choose to see as our villain. It leaves you with less of a sense of wondering about humanity as I expected though. Everything sort of came full circle and that’s always enjoyable in a way, even if you don’t know every itsy bitsy detail about the character’s lives in the “after”. Questions that were asked throughout all books were (partially) answered or dealt with, no characters were forgotten or left behind. To say that ended in a couple useless fights is the understatement of the week …Īs far as endings for a series go, this was really decent though. Also, certain scenes quickly gave off a repetitive vibe, as the same characters fought over the same topics over and over again, without making much progress or trying to see the other’s perspective. I guess it wouldn’t have worked to just tell it chronologically, but it just felt more scattered, whereas I always considered this series to be very focused. I don’t remember if that was the case in the previous installments, but I also struggled a bit with the copious amounts of time jumps. Even some real blowbacks didn’t affect me at all and that was a real shame. There were some serious life and death scenarios in the past that often didn’t end well and I appreciated this cold and almost detached analysis of “mistakes were made” and “wrong decisions were made”, but nothing in Only Human felt as severe as it should. Something about them and their way of life just seemed silly (I really had a tough time with their language for some reason) and even when situations became really dire, it just did not feel that way. I had a VERY hard time taking the aliens seriously.
However, a large part of this book didn’t take place on Earth and that was to be expected after the cliffhanger ending from Waking Gods, but I think I thought that the aliens would be different. This story is still very much about humanity. I was surprised at how easily I found myself back in this world, remembering (almost) everything that had happened previously. It has been a while since I read the previous books in the series, but my statement that this is like an adult and more Earth-centered version of the Illuminae Files still stands … sort of. If you want to read my review of book 1, Sleeping Giants, click here and if you want to read my thoughts on book 2, Waking Gods, click here!
Only Human is the third and final book in the Themis Files series.
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