The Life of the World to Come	Kage Baker
Tor, 2004	ISBN 0-765-31132-1
	Jan 17/Feb 1 (emu)
Review by emu: I'm not going to give a summary of this, other than to say it's the fifth book in Kage Baker's series of novels of the Company, and it's about Nicholas, Edward, and Alec (previously introduced in a short story found in Black Projects, White Knights. It's not a good idea, I think, to start off your exposure to the Company with this novel... Read the previous books first (in order, they are: In the Garden of Iden, Sky Coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, and The Graveyard Game). Well... Kage Baker naturally is awesome, but this book wasn't as good as the previous books in the series. For one, it only answered the mystery of Nicholas/Edward, while the end of the last book left the reader much more concerned with other company secrets. For two, it lacked Joseph. >_> Surprisingly, I'd read part of this novel before... part of it is the story "Smart Alec" from Black Projects, White Knights... Making that story make more sense now, but still. Actually, that was the very same story I'm on in the previously mentioned book... so it irked me that I was reading something I was reading. XD; Ahh.. anyway, this book moves slow as well... Nothing really happens in it. You gain some insights as to what people are like in the "future" (pathetic) and the end of the book was fairly well done, but Mendoza's still missing and the Company's still keeping most of its secrets when the book's over. It's recommended if you've read the other books in the series (and if you have, you should definately continue on, since you probably enjoyed the previous books). I want Baker to write more about Ermenwyr, but that has nothing to do with this.