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A review by bloopbloopwilson
The Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven
2.0
The entire first half the book is completely unnecessary and the whole book is incredibly hard to follow (a problem I had all previous books too). Niven doesn't have a great talent for clearly describing environments his characters are in. I found myself reading and re-reading and re-re-reading things over and over again. He seems to contradict himself in his imagery often and that causes my imagination to come to an aggravating halt.
The first half of the book barely involves the main characters for the previous book. It introduces about 15 new characters that have long forgettable names and you get about 3 chapters to learn about them all. The book does come with a glossary in the back of the book with all the new characters and their species. This glossary is entirely necessary if you want to have any iota of what's going on throughout this half of the book. In fact, I started to keep a separate bookmark back there so I could flip to it quicker. (SPOILER)And even when some of them die, it still felt like I was reading about them for the first time (/SPOILER). The first half comes to a boring and lame conclusion and then you finally get to the real interesting story....
You learn a lot about the protectors in this book which to me, is very exciting. You barely got to know anything about them in the last book which disappointed me greatly. Despite the protectors having enormous brains, Louis still outsmarts them almost every time. There's a lot of fights between protectors but they are described so badly that it's not until the fight is over and several paragraphs later do I know the outcome. I wish R.A. Salvatore would write a Ringworld book. He's amazing at writing fighting scenes.
Not a great review but I don' feel like writing more.
The first half of the book barely involves the main characters for the previous book. It introduces about 15 new characters that have long forgettable names and you get about 3 chapters to learn about them all. The book does come with a glossary in the back of the book with all the new characters and their species. This glossary is entirely necessary if you want to have any iota of what's going on throughout this half of the book. In fact, I started to keep a separate bookmark back there so I could flip to it quicker. (SPOILER)And even when some of them die, it still felt like I was reading about them for the first time (/SPOILER). The first half comes to a boring and lame conclusion and then you finally get to the real interesting story....
You learn a lot about the protectors in this book which to me, is very exciting. You barely got to know anything about them in the last book which disappointed me greatly. Despite the protectors having enormous brains, Louis still outsmarts them almost every time. There's a lot of fights between protectors but they are described so badly that it's not until the fight is over and several paragraphs later do I know the outcome. I wish R.A. Salvatore would write a Ringworld book. He's amazing at writing fighting scenes.
Not a great review but I don' feel like writing more.