Deepgate Codex/YMMV


 * Network Decay: In Iron Angel, the established cast get to do exactly nothing - Dill is sent to Hell, where he spends most of the book running away, fails, and then the villains do exactly what they wanted in the first place, Carnival comes back to join the heroes for apparent reason, only to face a Curb Stomp Battle against John Anchor, and Rachel's prior badassery and determination go out the window as she becomes a purely passive observer in events, complete with a new angsty, female, incredibly pale, not-as-inhuman-as-she-would-like protagonist to actually take her place. What? It might have been a decent novel in its own right had it focused on a new setting and new characters, but Iron Angel wastes a full third of its page count on making you watch the characters you were invested in do exactly nothing.