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The Doors of Eden
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
More a 2.5, I’ve been generous with a 3. I really like this author and I love sci fi. The concept of this book really appealed and I expected to really like it. Sadly I was very disappointed. There were too many characters, none of them were likeable and some seemed to be there for no other reason than to tick an inclusivity box. This author is known for his very long technical chapters explaining - for example - the evolution of fictional species from other worlds, over thousands of years. He does this exceptionally well and in a realistic, believable way. How then has he written an entire book about parallel earths, communication between a myriad of life forms across said parallel earths and the technology each have independently developed with absolutely no attempt at explanation. Other reviewers have made this criticism much better than I can so I won’t go into detail, I just found that most of the book was full of silly, random far fetched things happening and working because they just do. I think he needs to read some Michael Crichton to see how it can be done properly. This hasn’t put me off the author, but sadly, I can’t recommend this particular book to anyone. Very disappointed.