Really the wraeththu are just as flawed as man is, just in slightly different ways. Wraththu are beautiful and awesome and just, like, so totally superior to mankind in every single way. The premise that at some point in the future humanity has began to evolve intoa higher form called wraeththu. Most of the reviews I see of these three books (that aren't dealing with the role playing game that has apparently been developed around them) complain that the plot is a bit lacking. Storm Constantine's Wreaththu trilogy (read by me in a convenient omnibus version) was the perfect example of this. It's characters or GTFO for me folks, all the way. Objectively I can admit that these books might not be the most expertly crafted, but I care not at all. But to be honest the books I love best tend to be way unbalanced, in favour of the character side of things. I feel like the books that could most objectively be called "the best" fall right smack in the middle of these two things, a perfect mix of plot and characters. On one end we have PLOT and on the other end there is CHARACTER. So whenever I think about how "good" a book is there always appears in my mind a spectrum.
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