u/AxiosElectric

****SPOILERS****

In the easiest way to put it is.

A Metro station has an outbreak of a deadly contagious disease.

Group A: Wants to go there and kill them all.

Group B: Wants to save them (eventually discovers a potential cure)

Group C: Which gets like 4 paragraphs and Group A & B dont even know about is already slaughtering everyone.

Book is 309 long. You spend 308 pages gearing up for the big climax where Group A is ready to slaughter everyone and Group B is trying their hardest to talk everyone out of it. But tough shit because the entire station floods killing everyone due to Group C which nobody knows about. Its honestly kinda like a really jarring ending because its such a curveball and you go well what the fuck was even the point of all this. At page 300 I was talking to the wife going "Im just not understanding how they are going to wrap this up in 20 pages this has to be continued in the sequel" nope its just *Tunnel floods ok book over*

Ive now read 2033 and 2034 and ive noticed Dmitry does this thing in both of his books where his characters unlock fast travel in the last 25 pages of his books. In 2033 it took artyom like 300 pages to get from Vdnk to Polis but in the last 1/4 of the book he gets from Polis to Vdnk is like a paragraph.

Something happened to Sasha and Flute guy. They spent 40ish pages walking to Sport Station and a single page driving the trolley back to Polis.

It really does seem videogamey like "Congrats you are in New game + you unlocked fast travel" and then they just bounce around

This sounds like a stupid rookie question coming but I rarely do residential and not 100% on the nuance of it all. Im doing a new service to my house. Doing the ground rods I bought 15ft of wire and I guess I under estimated how much I need. I dont have enough to reach the disconnect ground bar. If I just end it at the ground bridge is that wrong?