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A review by tuftymctavish
The Line of Polity by Neal Asher
3.0
This is a weighty tome! In some respects it reminds me of the few Warhammer40k novels that I've read (and didn't particularly enjoy). Perhaps that's due to one of the foes in the book, the Theocracy.
There are a lot of characters, and some I never quite figured out who they were or their exact relationship to each other. Sometimes they flit in here and there and are never fully formed in my mind. This applies mainly to the bad guys, as they tend to get less 'page time' than the good guys.
One aspect I found odd were the italicised interludes that open each chapter. They read like a Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale and after a while I started skipping these short segments entirely. Extra volume that muddled things further.
There are a lot of characters, and some I never quite figured out who they were or their exact relationship to each other. Sometimes they flit in here and there and are never fully formed in my mind. This applies mainly to the bad guys, as they tend to get less 'page time' than the good guys.
One aspect I found odd were the italicised interludes that open each chapter. They read like a Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale and after a while I started skipping these short segments entirely. Extra volume that muddled things further.