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infosifter's review against another edition
4.0
This was a fun sci-fi adventure. Although it is quite long, the pacing was good for maintaining a reader's interest. If you enjoy stories involving telepathy or discovering new life forms, give this series a try.
duchess's review
2.0
Maybe it's because I read this book immediately after [b:Provenance|36076403|Provenance|Ann Leckie|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1512317898s/36076403.jpg|45094649], but this third instalment of the Psi-Tech series felt very pedestrian. I didn't remember it feeling this way in the first two - I had been drawn in by the high-stakes plot and engrossing characters (despite their alliterative names) - and so I feel let down.
This book was 50% too long, for starters. Far too much exposition, weird tonal shifts, sudden jumps in the timeline, and it was not able to maintain a level of suspense throughout the plot which is kind of absurd given that this book is about finding outa blob monster in the voids of space composed of literally nothing is consuming human ships then spitting them back out to kill other humans via a malicious hivemind.
The upside is that all the remaining loose ends from the previous two books have been neatly wrapped up. This book could have been really entertaining, but it suffered from lacklustre writing and poor editing.
This book was 50% too long, for starters. Far too much exposition, weird tonal shifts, sudden jumps in the timeline, and it was not able to maintain a level of suspense throughout the plot which is kind of absurd given that this book is about finding out
The upside is that all the remaining loose ends from the previous two books have been neatly wrapped up. This book could have been really entertaining, but it suffered from lacklustre writing and poor editing.
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