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helenfrench 's review for:
The Doors of Eden
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I'll start with saying Tchaikovsy is fast becoming one of my favourite SF writers. Dogs of War and Children of Time are very different and astonishingly brilliant works from him.
Unfortunately, The Doors of Eden didn't quite do it for me. Let's say it's my problem, not his.
It begins with a simple enough premise - girlfriends Lee and Mallory are out on the moors one day when 'something' happens and Mal vanishes into nothing.
Then the story becomes more complex. Years pass, and then a government physicist is attacked, secret services start looking into things - and is that Mal, too, back from the missing? It soon becomes clear that there are cracks between multiple universes, or parallel Earths, and something is trying to get through. But what, and why?
With the introduction of all these layers of story, characters and interludes that explain these other Earths, I lost the urge to push forward and keep reading. The book was long, and I am lazy! I kept putting it down so I could escape to easier reads for a little while and then return.
So by the end of the book, I wasn't super attached to any of the characters or their stories. The worldbuilding is deep and amazing, but it didn't for whatever reason pull me in. I battled to the end but it was tough.
A shame because the author is a fantastic writer and I wonder if others will enjoy it far more.
Unfortunately, The Doors of Eden didn't quite do it for me. Let's say it's my problem, not his.
It begins with a simple enough premise - girlfriends Lee and Mallory are out on the moors one day when 'something' happens and Mal vanishes into nothing.
Then the story becomes more complex. Years pass, and then a government physicist is attacked, secret services start looking into things - and is that Mal, too, back from the missing? It soon becomes clear that there are cracks between multiple universes, or parallel Earths, and something is trying to get through. But what, and why?
With the introduction of all these layers of story, characters and interludes that explain these other Earths, I lost the urge to push forward and keep reading. The book was long, and I am lazy! I kept putting it down so I could escape to easier reads for a little while and then return.
So by the end of the book, I wasn't super attached to any of the characters or their stories. The worldbuilding is deep and amazing, but it didn't for whatever reason pull me in. I battled to the end but it was tough.
A shame because the author is a fantastic writer and I wonder if others will enjoy it far more.