The Toll

Great, but not amazing. I think the Thunderhead was better, and Scythe is waaaay better. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't read 87% of it on my phone's narrow, annoyingy glarey and eye-fatiguing screen. Glad I have an e-reader now.
Still a good read. Buuuut what happened to those elegies Faraday told Rowan to make for his victims? That plot thread was just left there, hanging. Okay, technically that's a cliffhanger from Thunderhead, not The Toll, but still, come on. I wanted to read those elegies! I wanted to seeing how Rowan would handle them!
I guess the lesson of this book is that humanity can't be perfect. Therefore, to embrace our humanity means to embrace death and imperfection. That message still has two ways of being interpreted, though...