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12140holmes's review against another edition
3.0
A good continuation of the series but this one more technical and more difficult to follow because of that.
tommythe13th's review against another edition
4.0
I got this as a free book from Amazon recently. The characters were very engaging and the science fiction elements quite interesting and I appreciated the level of explanation provided. At first, I found the "millenarian" storyline to be distracting and unnecessary, but seeing that one of the sequels focuses heavily on that makes it "foreshadowing." I felt that disasters escalated too quickly and went too far.
I liked the main characters and what they were doing. I'll probably read the rest of the series at some point.
I liked the main characters and what they were doing. I'll probably read the rest of the series at some point.
tommythe13th's review against another edition
4.0
I read the first book and thought it had some good ideas, but some squirrelly subplots and mediocre editing. This book expands on some of those goofy subplots making them tie in better with the rest of the story. It also introduced interesting new ideas again, so I'll keep reading. The characters are all rather goody-goody with the environmental disaster(s) being the big villains. A timeline is suggested at the end of this book but doesn't seem to mesh well with the seasons, events, and other durations mentioned in the book.
jaybatson's review
2.0
Well, as I said about the first two books in this series, the concepts & story are fine. They're well-set into the mainstream of SciFi concepts. As in the first two, the author spends more words than typical SciFi books explaining the technology or SciFi concepts. In this final book of the series, the author comes full-circle to explains the background causes behind the concepts introduced in the first two books.
There's real potential in the series. BUT, as I indicated before, the writing level is not as high as the concepts / story. It feels almost like it's written for a young age bracket (e.g. teens), with fairly obvious, or unnecessary explanations or dialog. As I write this, I realize this is just another aspect of the author's style - the same aspect that gives rise to the lengthy explanations of the technology / SciFi concepts.
And, as in the first two, the editing, grammatical and punctuation errors are aggravating.
While I can't say for sure, since I'm not a writer, this series is probably a good case study of the value of having a large publisher (vs. self-publishing). This series of 3 books should probably have really been only one book, much more tightly written & edited. A mainstream publisher might have seen the potential in these books & this author, and assigned a really sharp editor to get the author to cut about 60% of the text, accelerate the pace of the story, discover more effective techniques to carry the story other than "quoted text as mental thought", and only go into detail when REALLY needed, e.g. the explanation of how the dimensional shift technology came to be, and works.
Sufficiently coached & edited, this author - and these books - could have turned into a 4 star review.
There's real potential in the series. BUT, as I indicated before, the writing level is not as high as the concepts / story. It feels almost like it's written for a young age bracket (e.g. teens), with fairly obvious, or unnecessary explanations or dialog. As I write this, I realize this is just another aspect of the author's style - the same aspect that gives rise to the lengthy explanations of the technology / SciFi concepts.
And, as in the first two, the editing, grammatical and punctuation errors are aggravating.
While I can't say for sure, since I'm not a writer, this series is probably a good case study of the value of having a large publisher (vs. self-publishing). This series of 3 books should probably have really been only one book, much more tightly written & edited. A mainstream publisher might have seen the potential in these books & this author, and assigned a really sharp editor to get the author to cut about 60% of the text, accelerate the pace of the story, discover more effective techniques to carry the story other than "quoted text as mental thought", and only go into detail when REALLY needed, e.g. the explanation of how the dimensional shift technology came to be, and works.
Sufficiently coached & edited, this author - and these books - could have turned into a 4 star review.
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