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A review by octavia_cade
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
3.0
A book of two halves. The first I was deeply interested in: an original, heavily character-based story, in which people who couldn't fit into a future universe chose, for a variety of reasons, to travel back in time to the Pliocene Era and spend their lives there.
Unfortunately, then it turned into a story about a war against aliens who'd come to live on early Earth. The character stuff got essentially dropped in favour of action and my interest plummeted right along with it. It was a struggle to finish. Apparently there's another book following this one, but I care so very little about the Tanu that I can't see myself bothering to read it. A shame, as it started so well.
Unfortunately, then it turned into a story about a war against aliens who'd come to live on early Earth. The character stuff got essentially dropped in favour of action and my interest plummeted right along with it. It was a struggle to finish. Apparently there's another book following this one, but I care so very little about the Tanu that I can't see myself bothering to read it. A shame, as it started so well.