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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Entertaining. Each chapter switches tells the story from a different character which keeps it from getting too bogged down (as there are some unpleasant characters).
Good tale, some minor gripes with it but nothing major. Sounds daft but character names of all things was a main issue. plenty of tech , suspense and action. Looking forward to the sequel now that the plot is formed and the characters are in place for some more sci-fi goodness. Not a great book but not terrible either. A decent starting point for something that could be truly epic. A lot of similarities with Herbert's Dune..... ( which the author has written a lot of prequels for)
A good start to an epic space opera. It's a little repetitive at times but overall I think it works and builds a realistic world. I'm looking forward to the next six books!
... nah.
I picked this up from ibooks when they were doing a 'get the first book in a series free' thing. It sounded like it could be a fun epic, and it starts well enough: let's turn a superJupiter into a star using alien tech! The first portag is a female xenoarchaeologist!
I don't even mind multiple points of view.
But the first alien didn't feel that alien, and was a bit too eye-rolly pompous. And the heir of the world-trees place goes to visit the alien planet - and the aliens are all very human-like - and one of the first things mentioned about the palace is that there are courtesans? And the heir of the alien planet is all 'yeh I gotta sow mah oats real fast cos when I inherit, I get the snip' ... nah.
I liked the world-tree and their priests, but they didn't seem as cool as the Templars in the Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.
So unless someone can give me a really convincing reason to get back to it... nah.
I picked this up from ibooks when they were doing a 'get the first book in a series free' thing. It sounded like it could be a fun epic, and it starts well enough: let's turn a superJupiter into a star using alien tech! The first portag is a female xenoarchaeologist!
I don't even mind multiple points of view.
But the first alien didn't feel that alien, and was a bit too eye-rolly pompous. And the heir of the world-trees place goes to visit the alien planet - and the aliens are all very human-like - and one of the first things mentioned about the palace is that there are courtesans? And the heir of the alien planet is all 'yeh I gotta sow mah oats real fast cos when I inherit, I get the snip' ... nah.
I liked the world-tree and their priests, but they didn't seem as cool as the Templars in the Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.
So unless someone can give me a really convincing reason to get back to it... nah.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
THIS is how you start a series. Beneath a shiny, Star Trek exterior is Warhammer 40K levels of bad. Inventive aliens, Anderson characters, and some dark stuff. I've read this series two times now, on my third, and it's still just as good as when I first cracked it open.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
