User blog comment:Zhukov15/How is Turtledove is betraying us!/@comment-21519-20130413184556

I passionately followed TL-191 from the first page to the last, but once the Second Great War started it stopped being fun. There was no real feeling of world-building or organic plot development, it was all plot conveniences to force parallelism and just-for-kicks ass-pulls. DttE and TG were awful. IatD had the same problems but managed (barely) to succeed as a conclusion by tying down outstanding storylines without opening new ones, and by allowing characters (and readers) to find space to reflect onthe journey they'd been on. It was for the most part the ending all parties concerned deserved. Prolonging the story beyond that would be a grave disservice.

Another point: HB was not a good book by the standards of Worldwar and Colonization, but it did add to the series by bringing the themes of the series to their logical conclusion. In this case those themes have already been wrapped up. It was about ongoing antagonism between the US and the Confederacy. That contest is over now. It has a final, decisive winner. The other governments you've named were only ever there to play supporting roles. If any of them now becomes the main antagonist, we'll have an entirely