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A review by payal_reads_alot
Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
3.0
I'm so torn about this book. I can't tell if I liked it but I know I didn't hate it. Here's what I liked about the book.
1. Fascinating details about interstellar travels and lifestyle.
2. Change in human genetics due to isolation and environment (green priests).
3. Introduction of peaceful Aliens (Ildirans).
4. Differences in lifestyle between humans and aliens.
5. Types of robots and the work they did.
6. The ruling structure - I imagined that it sounds rather close to what we can expect from an empire.
Here's what I didn't like about it.
1. Flat characters.
2. Mining. Why does a space saga always, always involve mining?
3. Lack luster romance - it tried and failed rather spectacularly at invoking feelings.
4. Overall boring. It read like a history book; drab and droning.
5. Really short chapters. It did nothing to improve the book since these were too short to give rather good handle on each of the characters.
6. The ending, ugh! I know it is part of a series, but that ending was horrible.
I'll say its close to 2.5 but will round it up to 3.
1. Fascinating details about interstellar travels and lifestyle.
2. Change in human genetics due to isolation and environment (green priests).
3. Introduction of peaceful Aliens (Ildirans).
4. Differences in lifestyle between humans and aliens.
5. Types of robots and the work they did.
6. The ruling structure - I imagined that it sounds rather close to what we can expect from an empire.
Here's what I didn't like about it.
1. Flat characters.
2. Mining. Why does a space saga always, always involve mining?
3. Lack luster romance - it tried and failed rather spectacularly at invoking feelings.
4. Overall boring. It read like a history book; drab and droning.
5. Really short chapters. It did nothing to improve the book since these were too short to give rather good handle on each of the characters.
6. The ending, ugh! I know it is part of a series, but that ending was horrible.
I'll say its close to 2.5 but will round it up to 3.