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brianpipa's review
Got about halfway through and gave up. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't great and wasn't holding my interest
neea_le_meur's review against another edition
4.0
Le premier livre prend son temps pour installer ses personnages et son univers, mais les révélations du tome 2 et la conclusion en valent le coup.
neea_le_meur's review against another edition
4.75
Le premier livre prend son temps pour installer ses personnages et son univers, mais les révélations du tome 2 et la conclusion en valent le coup.
moiram's review
4.0
948 pages! This is a LONG book, but it never drags. It is a murder mystery, set both in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and on the alien planet of St. Libra. I'm told by my brother-in-law, who is from Newcastle, that despite being set in 2143, the city is still very recognizable - I wouldn't know, never having been there myself. It is also very much a sci-fi novel, with aliens, futuristic technology and spaceships. The core characters are all very relatable, and you learn their intertwined back stories as the novel progresses. All in all, a very enjoyable read, although I did find all the clones' names a little confusing at times. There were 3 brothers, who all cloned themselves multiple times, and all the clone's names start with the first letter of their "father's" name, so yeah, a little confusing at times, at least to me!
angrygreenfrogs's review
5.0
This is a perfect book for Audible. The story is engrossing, the audio performance on audible is spectacular, and since it's such a big read, you can miss a few sentences here and there without worry. I loved it.
lorune's review
5.0
Awesome storyline, really nice ending, solid stuff again, I can't wait for Mr Hamilton's next book !
elwoodradley's review against another edition
1.0
Got 400 pages into it and had to stop. I could not get into it. The plot was pretty interesting to me, but I didn’t connect with any characters at all, and all of the random background info was just too much for me. The 400 pages I read could have been cut down to 200 pages easily, and would have been just as good if not better.
clarag's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
5.0
hank's review
4.0
Sci-fi, Hamilton, huge book fan so take my rating appropriately. Lots of threads woven together, no particularly brilliant insights into the human condition and a not subtle jab at humans=polluters.
Still, it was a fairly interesting mystery/police procedural and lets me dream about faster than light travel and other worlds plus living for a very long time.
Still, it was a fairly interesting mystery/police procedural and lets me dream about faster than light travel and other worlds plus living for a very long time.