Snag The Unnamed Way (The World Walker Series #4) Composed By Ian W. Sainsbury Accessible In Publication

enjoyable. Not as good as other books in the series, Still, I am hoping this doesn't turn out to be the last in the World Walker series now that and spoiler so asterisks.
The author did mention in his Notes at the end the potential still for future books, If not, well, I would be likely to read anything new which comes from Mr, Sainsbury. Wish I could afford to send you ayear old bottle of single malt, Ian, But with my budget I couldn't afford evenyear or even freshly casked, But I promise to get your next book, Okay We good Thanks for the entertainment, Ian, Keep with it!! This book was so disappointing, and the fact that it had so much potential just made the disappointment that much more painful to face.


Religion : Romance : World Walkers

Religion:
At the very start of the book a caricature of Jesus is parodied.
Muhammadan scripture is elevated for its elegance, Very western mindset. You show your enlightened liberation by poking fun at Christianity, but heaven forbid you do the same to Islam, To poke fun at Islam is not enlightened liberation, but cultural insensitivity, I get so tired of the double standard put forth by "advanced thinkers, "

But let's put that aside for a minute, Seb and Jesus agree that they'll touch base on this topic later, . . so I wait through the entire book for this encounter to become plot relevant, . . and I wait and I wait. Other than those first few paragraphs Jesus never appears again, and I'm left scratching my head, Just what exactly did that have to do with anything that followed

Romance:
Seb, as we know is completely nanotech.
He is loosing his attachment to humanity, No wait! He is very attached to Mee and Joni, No wait! he is loosing his attachment to humanity, No wait!

OK already, Make up your mind. You can't just wildly gyrate from one end of the pendulum to the other depending on your romantic developments, Decide just exactly what it is you want Seb to be, and stick with a consistent character development,

World Walker:
Very rare, Just a handful in the multiverse, A random evolutionary offshoot.

Oh, wait. BJ can create one at will, Oh, wait. Seb can create one at will, So, to be consistent, when World Walkers get in a pinch with their foe, really, they can just create more of their own and mosey on According to the rules of this book, looks like it.
Excellent wrap up to this particular timeline, but the author teases of more to come, Best part of this series is the authors end notes,

I have loved living in this world with Seb, Joni and Mee and put off reading the ending as long as I could.
By the way, it ends right! Just as in the other books in this series, the unexpected pleasure is reading the authors notes and getting a glimpse of the magic.
EXCELLENT close to this arc, I do hope

the author eventually returns to this universe because there is so much potential here and his stories are wonderful,

I couldn't even bring myself to deduct for the ever present poor copy editing, Seriously, he needs a good copy editor, Still, the books are quite good and this wrap was the bomb, It will stay with me for a long time,

I'll read more by this author, for sure, What away to end

Ian closed this book so well, I almost cried. We get to find out where Seb went, during hisyears away, All the friggin twist and turns, you really didn't know where he was going, We get to finally meet other words walkers, Without giving to much away, Seb makes a decision that most would find hard to make,

Ian Sainsbury! Please keep writing, You hinted at possible side stories, Like you said, the possibilities are endless, Oh how I enjoyed these books and I loved the way Sainsbury ended the series,
The stories looked at many complex theories, evolution, love, religion, humanity to name a few, These books find their strength in their gentleness for me in family and love, loyalty, and
friendship and the strength and importance they give to the meaning of life and reason for living, the essence of Web's final choice.

A great story, very compelling reading, exciting with excellent plot building and characters you love, In short: Brilliant. Inspired.

Full review:

I'm going to review all four books in one as I read them back to back, I'm fairly fortunate in that I come to Ian's books late and he had completed the quadrilogy, Lucky for me really. I'm a lover or the larger books as I really like to submerge myself into the story and characters, So for me the four books make one sizeable book, split into four parts, I strongly recommend reading all four backback and in order, Yes each one can be read separately, and each story stands on its own, But in my opinion, all four books work best together as one epic tale,

The four books chart story of Sebastian Varden, A middling successful musician who starts the first novel as someone about to commit suicide, Not exactly the most foreboding of starts, but one that piques the ole curiosity right from the off,

Now if you read all the other reviews, the vast majority of which give Ian five well deserved, you will know each The Unnamed Way's story well enough.
As a fellow writer I'm going to review these from a writers viewpoint, just to be a little different,

Ian is not afraid to let main characters die, George R. R. Martin has shown the publishing world that you can kill off characters and it is OK, Lets face it, we don't all live in the Disney inspired loveliness that there is a happy ever after for every character well except for the baddies that is.
This is one of the many things that I feel adds a depth to the story telling that is missing from other writers.


Ian's characters are real, You can connect with them, They exist. You empathise with them. They have flaws, and are all the more real for them, Even the secondary characters have a depth normally missing from other works, These are people, they have more depth than the page they are written on, Top marks!

Ian mixes magic, religion and Science Fiction, A mix that would normally be reserved for SF masters such as Peter F Hamiliton His Void series Or a mix which can easily lead to disaster.
His touch upon each topic is inspired and illuminating, Respectful is another word. Depending on your take of religion amp faith is how you will form your own opinion on this topic, For me, it was thought provoking,

I personally loved the way the characters developed, I liked the way Ian addressed super hero issues, The recent crop of Marvel films have just started to address these issues, No longer are they unapproachable icons of perfection, They are flawed, far from perfection, They are real people with all the baggage and imperfections that you and I have, Seb, is this personified. I wish I could write characters this real!

In summary, Great story telling. Enthralling, emotional and immensely readable, I didn't want to put these down, I am genuinely impressed.

Sean P Chatterton

P, S. I had to dig my copy of Lao Tzu's book after reading these, .