Only Human

 Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel, 336 pages.

After the events of Waking Gods, everyone who happened to be celebrating on Themis after the fight was over is transported to the robots homeworld, where they spend nearly a decade. When they finally return to Earth, they find that everything has really gone crazy in their absence. The same small team is again responsible for saving the world, this time from itself. 

It's been a while since I read the conclusion of a series that was quite so disappointing. This is a book mostly about prejudice and otherness, but it was so heavy-handed it was frankly pretty boring. This book was also going back and forth through time, which felt like it impeded the sort of solid, unstoppable build-up of the other two books. Finally, and I won't be two specific here for the sake of spoilers, it became very obvious in this book that a couple of the major characters who died at the end of the last book were very load-bearing, and this story just didn't shine without them. This wasn't a completely terrible book, but compared to the earlier two in the series it was disappointing and uninspired.