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A review by dmbarnham
The Death of Sleep by Anne McCaffrey
2.0
Well that was a painful read. The writing style flowed well, as all McCaffrey novels do, but the story itself was terrible. A shame as I loved Sassinak.
In the end I can't help but wonder what was the point of the entire thing? The only benefit at the last page was that she was now part of an intelligence agency and they would spend more effort searching for her, and they are on this mysterious planet that seems to be created purely as an ancient Earth historic preservation area. Plus the mysterious ponderings of "the Others" the alien race nobody knows exists.
Authors always say that a protagonist must always have a goal. well this story managed to have a goal (or goals) but still remain completely pointless. First Lunzie had to go find her daughter. She doesn't find her, in-fact over half way through (And the entire first half of that story) she spent years searching, and when she finally did find her again she didn't chase her because she finally realised that (her now very old) daughter doesn't give a damn and has moved on.
The core focus of events passing was due to Lunzie being placed in Cold Sleep. Which was an interesting move except she than gets put into sleep again half way through and it serves no purpose except to miss a direct meeting with her now old daughter and to throw her in with a ship captain that she has a meaningless relationship with (after recently breaking up with her previous partner who had moved on due to her second stint of cold sleep, another pointless exploration) ... and what was all this for? For the final pages detected for her to return to deep sleep ... AGAIN ...
It is clear from the last final pages that there must be another book. But I felt like I wasted my time reading this heap of rubbish.
In the end I can't help but wonder what was the point of the entire thing? The only benefit at the last page was that she was now part of an intelligence agency and they would spend more effort searching for her, and they are on this mysterious planet that seems to be created purely as an ancient Earth historic preservation area. Plus the mysterious ponderings of "the Others" the alien race nobody knows exists.
Authors always say that a protagonist must always have a goal. well this story managed to have a goal (or goals) but still remain completely pointless. First Lunzie had to go find her daughter. She doesn't find her, in-fact over half way through (And the entire first half of that story) she spent years searching, and when she finally did find her again she didn't chase her because she finally realised that (her now very old) daughter doesn't give a damn and has moved on.
The core focus of events passing was due to Lunzie being placed in Cold Sleep. Which was an interesting move except she than gets put into sleep again half way through and it serves no purpose except to miss a direct meeting with her now old daughter and to throw her in with a ship captain that she has a meaningless relationship with (after recently breaking up with her previous partner who had moved on due to her second stint of cold sleep, another pointless exploration) ... and what was all this for? For the final pages detected for her to return to deep sleep ... AGAIN ...
It is clear from the last final pages that there must be another book. But I felt like I wasted my time reading this heap of rubbish.