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I just finished "The Reality Dysfunction" and it was a good book in my opinion, I really liked it, but I have to say it took also strength to keep going, and I had to take breaks from it to regain the vitality I needed to dive into it again.      
       
I not only mean the pure density of it, the descriptions of the planets fauna, people and the all around flavor. But also the moments where you get introduced to characters, just for them to get abused as windows for the reader, to enable the reader to see glimpses of the bigger picture, which the main characters wouldn't be able to show as easy.      
        
Now my question is, does this change in the other books of the trilogy, does he cut down on the obtrusive and meandering subplots and characters and does he instead sharpen his story and characters, or does it ponder out that long again?
       
[Maybe seen as spoilerish so..](#s "When Ione is revealed as the Ruler of Ruin, the director of the Laymil research project "mentions" that this is also especially shocking for the Kulu dynasty, because they normally just have male heirs inheriting the thrones, but disregarding this later in the book the Planet Ombey is introduced, with Kirsten Saldana as ruler of the Ombey Principality and no mentioning of the apparent contradiction to what was mentioned earlier.")
<bot>: Does Peter F. Hamilton cut down on the excessive subplots and give his main characters more space to breath and gain depth, or will the other two books in the trilogy follow the same path as the first one?