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The Doors of Eden
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lee and Mal go looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Mal disappears in strange circumstances only to return a few years later as cracks start to appear between this world and numerous other parallel worlds where evolution has taken a different turn in each one producing a range of strange and varied creatures who come through the cracks, and the cracks put each of the various versions of earth in jeopardy.
It's an imaginative work but at times it was a bit of a slog. The chapters alternate with a "study" into a different reality where evolution has taken a different course. This interrupts the flow of the story and doesn't really add a great deal to it. It shows imagination but doesn't move the story on and gets a little tedious after a while. In addition to be honest I didn't really find any of the characters all that interesting.
The opening chapter seemed quite promising and the ending was pretty good, but all the stuff inbetween was just took a bit of getting through. Some interesting ideas that never really paid off for me. It really failed to captivate my interest.
It's an imaginative work but at times it was a bit of a slog. The chapters alternate with a "study" into a different reality where evolution has taken a different course. This interrupts the flow of the story and doesn't really add a great deal to it. It shows imagination but doesn't move the story on and gets a little tedious after a while. In addition to be honest I didn't really find any of the characters all that interesting.
The opening chapter seemed quite promising and the ending was pretty good, but all the stuff inbetween was just took a bit of getting through. Some interesting ideas that never really paid off for me. It really failed to captivate my interest.