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A review by katmarhan
Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead
3.0
6/10
There were many aspects of this book that I loved—the space station, the Martian city and Guardian Kyr, the adventures on Earth and the resistance on Gotham, and certain characters like Adjani and Gita—but the spiritual message was too often a heavy-handed bludgeoning rather than a deftly woven part of the story. And the sexism of the early 1980s was blatant—no women scientists, administrators, or main characters at all, with the predictable exceptions of the love interest of the protagonist and her mentally ill mother.
There were many aspects of this book that I loved—the space station, the Martian city and Guardian Kyr, the adventures on Earth and the resistance on Gotham, and certain characters like Adjani and Gita—but the spiritual message was too often a heavy-handed bludgeoning rather than a deftly woven part of the story. And the sexism of the early 1980s was blatant—no women scientists, administrators, or main characters at all, with the predictable exceptions of the love interest of the protagonist and her mentally ill mother.