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deadeyeh 's review for:
Far from the Light of Heaven
by Tade Thompson
Probably would have gone for 3.5 if I could. An interesting read, very different from the Rosewater trilogy. Overall the plot and story line were good, the characters were interesting but not developed as much as I would have liked, I felt I was always wanting to know a bit more about background and motivation for individual characters but the book just didn’t get to that depth. At the end, it felt like the big reveal had far too much squeezed in, and some of those key elements should have been introduced a bit earlier in the book. I suspect part of what he was going for was the element of surprise, with the reader finding out what was going on at exactly the same time as the main characters, but it just fell a little short for me. Definitely a page turner, and an interesting reality it’s set in with the Lagos space station, the bridge and non-conflict in space. Space murder mystery is quite new to me as a genre, and I enjoyed Tade’s take on it overall. Hope we will see more from these characters.