ithinktfiam 's review for:

Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson

2.0

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I really wanted to like this one, but I couldn't. The story is of a colony ship heading to a planet. The captain's from a famous family, with some issues, and wakes up to find a bunch of sleeping passengers killed. The AI in the ship does a HAL. A guy from the planet comes up to investigate before the remaining people are allowed down to the colony. All the basics are there for an interesting SF mystery.

However, the author drags it out,

Spoiler

never explains why, once the bad guy kills the guy he wanted to kill he keeps killing and acting insane

. Then there's the father and daughter from a way station, who really had no purpose other than speechifying. It all just became tedious.