Just started this book and so far its just a continuation of the series. I like it and will read more by this author including the Trade pact series which comes after this series.
Update...Wow great series great story little confusing towards end but I really enjoyed these books. Looking to read the trade pact series and be up to date when new series comes out later in 2015 ( )

Not as satisfying as the other books in the series. The bit in the middle was strange. Second half sounds interesting. ( )

The Om'ray of Sona practice their new ability to teleport and struggle to find a way to survive in their new home. The nearby Trade Pact archaeological expedition provides an additional complication--and perhaps opportunity. Their lives are about to change forever, in unexpected ways.

The end of this trilogy, and a lead-in to the Clan. ( )

This is the third and concluding Stratification book, telling the story about Aryl Sarc but also about how the Clan ended up in space, in the position and situation they occupy in the Trade Pact trilogy.

In books one and two we got to know Aryl and the people that surrounds her. In this book the imperative imposed on the author is they MUST get off Cersi, NOW. Accordingly that is what happens, and not at all in a way that is satisfactory to the reader.

No, I don’t say an author has to write feel-good stories. I’m saying sometimes the story, and the length of the story – the actual number of pages, forces the author to invent implausible plot devices. When the newly named M’hiray Clan arrives at Stonerim III, that is what happens. The removal of some of their memories, the shearing off of the connection with the O’mray, the cursory way the story is told. Not what I have come to expect from Czerneda.

While part one – Reap the wild Wind – felt like it was good on it’s own and with part two – Riders of the Storm – was well worth reading part three felt crippled, forced, by comparison. Maybe this is because I hadn’t read the Trade Pact trilogy first. I guess a lot of the more inexplicable things that happens has justification in those books, or maybe in the sequel Czerneda is planning. As I like her other books, this far, I’m willing to forgive her, to go on reading the rest of the Clan Chronicles. I would, however, not recommend this book on it’s own.
As a part of a greater story arc it is acceptable, though.

(Not that this is the exact same review as the on I have published on my blog) ( )