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A review by ninjalawyer
Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds
2.0
This books is a good reminder that writing dialogue is hard. So many passages - from the main character’s weirdly sterile/formal conversations with his wife, to his desperate-for-love conversations with a pig-person - are cringeworthy.
I kind of expected that, but I didn’t expect the bad plotting. A lot of the first half of this is characters chasing after one poorly explained magic object after another, and the plot only works at all because of secret knowledge revealed at the end that’s basically a wallpapered over deus ex machina.
Oh, and the plot just kind of ends pre-climax.
I kind of expected that, but I didn’t expect the bad plotting. A lot of the first half of this is characters chasing after one poorly explained magic object after another, and the plot only works at all because of secret knowledge revealed at the end that’s basically a wallpapered over deus ex machina.
Oh, and the plot just kind of ends pre-climax.