Reviews

Dancing With Eternity by John Patrick Lowrie

m4marya's review against another edition

3.0

This book was entertaining. I found some of the opinions about feminism to be a bit heavy handed and slightly out of place, when compared with the tone of the rest of the book. I was able to ignore this part of it and enjoy the rest of the story. As I was reading it I felt like I was reading a science fiction novel from an earlier era, one that attempted to imagine how society would change but could not really imagine the loss of that era's morals and values. So, it felt a bit old-fashioned to me. It was an interesting mix of cultures, religions and personalities.

jennkei's review against another edition

4.0

I don't know how I found this book, but I'm glad I did.

It was epic. Got a bit draggy around the middle, but plod through that and adventure, adventure. I loved Lowrie's long-haul concepts and themes. Rebooting, newbies, freewheeling (GATTAI! Okay, no one will get this Aquarion EVOL reference. >.>), perspectives, Draco/Pleiades, family, effects of space dilation, the reveal for Brainard's Planet.

Though I thought the blurb sounded rather tacky. ._. I'm glad I read the book first, it's a lot more elegant than that, lol.

zarahhs's review against another edition

2.0

2.75 stars. this was good i guess. sometimes i was a little bored, and sometimes a bit confused by the story. but i did enjoy it, and im a big space lover so just the fact that this book was set in space is a big part of why im giving it the rating i am. i didnt really bond a lit with the characters, and many of them went by unnoticed, it wasnt really until the end i started caring about them.