thecasecloser 's review for:

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.0

After 5 straight underwhelming books (I rated 1-2 stars each), I tried to find a book that family/friends enjoyed to increase my odds. Of course all of the good candidates had waitlists at the library so I picked this one up on a whim and it narrowly avoided being #6.

Alien Clay has essentially one interesting concept and an otherwise quite cliché, uninteresting story and flat, uncompelling characters. It felt like a discount Andy Weir book.