A review by sarsaparillo
Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds

3.0

I read the earlier books in this series many years ago (and really liked them!) and so perhaps I'd lost the prerequisite emotional investment in the characters and world, but I found it surprisngly hard to stay engaged in the story. There seemed to be too-frequent moments of inappropriate earnestness and sentimentality, and I felt the overall plot was often laid out in advance and so the major turning points were unsurprising and the surprises were relatively inconsequential.