As war rages between the humans and the nearly extinct avians and technologically superior octospiders, Nicole and her extended family are forced to move.

The less then acceptable conclusion to the sequel trilogy.  I liked the  parts where the characters interacted with aliens, but much less the human-human interactions.  It was nice to get closure with Nicole, and it is nice to get a lot of ambiguity about the Rama spacecraft, but I think too much was explained in the end.  Showing when the first guiding node appeared just seconds into the universe's origin is a little much.  In all, the sequel trilogy was good, though slow.  Hard to recommend to a friend.