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A review by nooralshanti
Saturnius Mons by Jeremy L. Jones
4.0
Saturnius Mons is an action-packed sci-fi novel about a group of 4 people involved in the Human Reconnection Project. They have come along on a Corporation spaceship as it lands on Titan for the first time in a thousand years. Their mission is to find evidence of an active civilization there and use it to put a legal road block in the Corporation's plan to take over the planet and its resources. This is a great set-up and mixed with some excellent world-building it made a very intriguing story. Unfortunately for me, more focus was placed on the gun-slinging and battles and action than on this fascinating world-building stuff, but if you enjoy action you will love this. I mean, I still thoroughly enjoyed it despite the excessive focus on violence and action, but I'm a little sad about the missed potential.
The novel has so much potential to explore all kinds of deep themes that were raised like the meaning of civilization, the horrors of slavery, drug-addiction, greed, etc, but in my opinion it didn't really delve into these enough. These big themes got lost in the constant, fast-paced action along with the original intent of the main characters. I felt that these characters were just too quick to throw themselves head-long into the battles being fought without much thought for their overarching goal or for consequences. There were a lot of instances of teaming up with someone and helping them start an entire battle just so they could get into a place... this is not how you save a civilization, guys. But aside from this, I really enjoyed the novel.
There were all kinds of little world-building details and hints about the Fall of civilization on Earth that were fascinating. The details about the world's terraforming, the Venganto who maintain the status quo, and the creatures that exist there were cool.
I think that's all I can say without spoilers. Definitely check this book out if you like action-based sci-fi.
The novel has so much potential to explore all kinds of deep themes that were raised like the meaning of civilization, the horrors of slavery, drug-addiction, greed, etc, but in my opinion it didn't really delve into these enough. These big themes got lost in the constant, fast-paced action along with the original intent of the main characters. I felt that these characters were just too quick to throw themselves head-long into the battles being fought without much thought for their overarching goal or for consequences. There were a lot of instances of teaming up with someone and helping them start an entire battle just so they could get into a place... this is not how you save a civilization, guys. But aside from this, I really enjoyed the novel.
There were all kinds of little world-building details and hints about the Fall of civilization on Earth that were fascinating. The details about the world's terraforming, the Venganto who maintain the status quo, and the creatures that exist there were cool.
I think that's all I can say without spoilers. Definitely check this book out if you like action-based sci-fi.