Wolfe has an interesting way with unreliable narrators, perception of events, and reflection on past happenings. A powerful ending to the series. There is so much here in this volume that I kept having to return to previous books over, simply because Wolfe has this amazing ability to characterize an event, implying heavily one thing, which his characters and readers go on believing, only to find that something else is true, but the original characterization never once contradicts this truth. The reader can't be certain of the motives of any of the various characters, and indeed, these shift and change under the lens of the narrator's focus. The effect is stunning.