A review by barryhaworth
A Night Without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton

4.0

This book took a while to get my interest. It starts as one of those annoying sorts of sequels where the good guys having defeated the bad guys in the previous book imediately have to face off against the same sort of bad guys all over again. In this case, after releasing the planet of Beinvenido from the Void and overthrown the oppressive government at the end of The Abyss Beyond Dreams, a new oppressive government comes to power. Fast forward a couple of centuries and they are still in power. I found the first couple of hundred pages hard going, but the story picked up about a third of the way through and kept on picking up the further I went. Towards the end things really picked up with almost too many new situations and twists to the story, but in the end all was resolved satisfactorily.

The final postscript in particular was very nicely done, with many cameos from characters from other books in the series. So, although I didn't like the way it started I very much enjoyed where it finished.