Peter F. Hamilton wraps up the Commonwealth and Void series (I think!)

I just finished a very enjoyable duology of Peter F. Hamilton's:

You'll need to have read at least three Hamilton's previous novels to really appreciate these two:

Pandora's Star
Judas Unchained

and at least one of the Void series:

The Dreaming Void
The Temporal Void
The Evolutionary Void

These books concern Bienvenido, another world in the Void that is not Querencia, the one described in the Void trilogy. It was also settled by captain and crew of a Commonwealth ship that was captured by the Void and devolved politically where the Captain and his successors hold most political power.

Abyss opens with a colony ship being captured by the Void when it was cruising well outside the Void on its way to another galaxy. Instead it finds itself near these structures that resemble trees and decide to investigate ...

That's when we encounter the Fallers, a monstrous species that entices humans (and others) close enough to its "eggs" to capture and "subsume" them ...

Nigel Sheldon's clone arrives in the second part of the book and "marries" Kyssandra, the young woman living on a farm near where Nigel's spaceship lands. She's just supposed to be sold into an arranged marriage with a local thug to pay her mother's debts but resists and wakes up from a drugged stupor at the altar not with the young thug ... but with Nigel! "Say yes," he says ...

Nigel runs rings around Bienvenido's powerful, engineering a political revolution and finally getting enough raw materials together to get his spaceship launched ... and to figure out what happened to the colony ship that was captured and to bring as much resolution as possible to that situation ...

Night continues the story ... if you finish Abyss and enjoy it, trust me and try this one. I found it one of the more satisfying stories I've experienced in years! Five stars!