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Muy bueno, tiene algunos detalles como los cambios bruscos de personaje en la narrativa y que al final una parte importante del misterio se resuelve muy fácil, pero en general muy entretenido.

magikspells's review against another edition

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3.0

This book was confusing as hell. I like sci-fi, but I also like characters, and I felt like everything about this story revolved around being told things. All the characters are pretty bland, in fact I really couldn't tell most of them apart. The story was sort of interesting once I managed to wade through all the stuff to get there. But by that time, I was just so bogged down with everything else that I almost couldn't care anymore. Its an interesting story, but not one that I think I'll be continuing.

Maybe I'm just not smart enough for this much heavy sci-fi. And I'm confused about why this keeps getting called a space opera. I don't even think this is space opera, this is hard sci-fi.

jakelewis_23_'s review against another edition

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4.0

3.5 rounded up!

Some really interesting ideas and concepts but as a sci-fi noob was just sometimes overwhelming to my poor brain!

jcarlostak's review

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slow-paced

4.0

georgemay's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

khristy's review

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adventurous tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Writing: competent. I listened to it. The narrator was adequate, but there was no way to tell when sections changed and you were in someone else’s story. That was frustrating.
Plot/characters: the first half was almost agonizingly slow. I’m all for world-building, but for the love ….get a move on. I considered stopping because nothing happened forever. But it finally picked up the pace and I wanted to know how it ended. The characters were interesting, but I did want more backstory on the ultra crew.
Profundity: I don’t see myself pondering much from this book though you could probably argue that we can walk away from the book needing to have discussions about what makes us human and the love of war…and probably the nature of reality, but I will not feel compelled to do that.

pigsflew's review against another edition

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4.0

This wasn't the first book I read of the Revelation Space sequence--I started with Redemption Ark, the third of the series. The thing that struck me as I was going through this novel was just how much thought Reynolds put into his vision of the future, how many things he seemed to have planned for in this first book. It seems as though in his universe, nothing is meaningless; nothing forgotten. Additionally, the limitation on this space opera of the speed of light and therefore the passage of incredible gaps of time play well into the psychologies and psychoses of his characters. Revelation Space is not the best of its series, but it is an incredible introduction.

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