Wayyyy too short. Left so many unanswered questions. I mean I've read enough to know what probably happened and guess at what comes after that random ass ending, but it's still annoying for everything to just get wrapped up in the middle of the climax. Tbh it was very weak storytelling after the halfway mark. It doesn't make sense why the higher ups hid that the outsiders weren't human, especially since revealing that would just allow them to go ahead with their war plans. It also doesn't make sense why H-O2 didn't want Helm to reveal that. There was that hinted relationship between H-O2 and the alpha (that could have been fun to explore). We never found out if Coral Reef betrayed Helm, we never saw the inner forest, or figured out why H-O2 let Helm think he wanted to kill him all those years. We also never really found out what happened in those flashback scenes with everyone dead. Did H-O2 like actually kill all of Helm's partners? Basically there were so many guns that didn't go off, so to speak, and it was wild that they were brought up narratively only to never be touched on again or completely thrown out.
Wayyyy too short. Left so many unanswered questions. I mean I've read enough to know what probably happened and guess at what comes after that random ass ending, but it's still annoying for everything to just get wrapped up in the middle of the climax. Tbh it was very weak storytelling after the halfway mark. It doesn't make sense why the higher ups hid that the outsiders weren't human, especially since revealing that would just allow them to go ahead with their war plans. It also doesn't make sense why H-O2 didn't want Helm to reveal that. There was that hinted relationship between H-O2 and the alpha (that could have been fun to explore). We never found out if Coral Reef betrayed Helm, we never saw the inner forest, or figured out why H-O2 let Helm think he wanted to kill him all those years. We also never really found out what happened in those flashback scenes with everyone dead. Did H-O2 like actually kill all of Helm's partners? Basically there were so many guns that didn't go off, so to speak, and it was wild that they were brought up narratively only to never be touched on again or completely thrown out.