This reads like amazingly detailed fanfic, which I don't mean negatively, but it's so obviously a HEA wish fulfilment. All (okay, a great many) of the major characters of the trilogy suddenly stop needing to risk killing themselves on a daily basis and instead decide to almost immediately become explorers and landscape gardeners as well as get married and have babies at pretty much the exact same time (I'm almost surprised not to have an Epilogue epilogue set many years later showing the Cult of Setari formed by all the offspring of these double setari couples). It's exactly as saccharine as the author promised, which may have been a little too much for me if I'm honest (I find the timescale of this Babies Ever After explosion just a tad improbable), but I did enjoy seeing the "what happened next" elements in regards to Muina as a whole. It's weird how it can have such a frontier like feel of survival and discovery even as they're growing entire, comfortably appointed, futuristic cities for tens of thousands of new citizens within a month and trying to reverse engineer teleportation platforms. I am so glad the author wrote this epilogue. It was the perfect ending to a perfect series. So nice to see a bit beyond 'and they all rode off into the sunset'. The only thing that could make this series more perfect would be the ability to purchase it in hardback published to look like real diaries. I wish I knew some publishers, because I'd be begging to have this series picked up and given the recognition it deserves. So happy to have found this series through a couple of blog posts. And although I'm sad that it's over (yes, I sniffled a bit) there are more titles by the author out there to try.
What do You think about Gratuitous Epilogue (2011)?
this is the forth and last book in the series. i enjoyed rereading them.
—alainalove
gorgeous and thoroughly satisfying ending! :))) not reviewing it at all.
—bbiiqurlx3
awesome! this is how you do a gratuitous epilogue folks.
—nena
