IVIV IV v. VL Van Meter/Zoyd/Doc

[Doug Millison]

Rob Jackson:

> At the end of the novel, even despite Zoyd's hypocrisy and complicity,
> Frenesi's sleeping with and working for the enemy, and Flash's shadowy
> past and present, they're all ultimately welcomed back into the family
> fold of the "Traverse-Becker annual reunion". So there is a sense of
> forgiveness there as well, even for Frenesi and Flash. It's
> sentimental and cheesy and akin to the obligatory sit-com pay-off, but
> self-consciously so, and there is a degree of "heart" in VL which
> seems to be absent from the two most recent novels.


Seems a reasonable conclusion.