A review by lukre
Eon by Greg Bear

3.0

***mild spoilers***
Basically after the 60% mark the story sort of withers away in the complications and side-info-dumps. There are quite a few details that didn't need to be explained IMO. And the characters sort of got lost along the way - both in the crowd of characters and within themselves. Take Lanier for instance - from a perfectly understandable character at the start of the book we get a lech who can't keep his pants on at one moment. (oh, and let's not forget his "magic dick")
another thing that felt unnecessary at times - constant avoidance characters giving each other full (necessary) info. There's no point in hiding stuff from characters to just later on dedcide out of the blue to tell them everything. 
for instance - the taking of Patricia and then sringing her along for over 100 to then just tell her, listen up we need a piece of your personality... that could easily have been done straight away. 
what bothererd me most was the fact that the first half of the book was great!