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A review by thinde
Awakened by Michael Anderle, Ell Leigh Clarke
2.0
Weak sauce.
This story, set several hundred years in the future, could be translated to North America 20 years ago with only minor editing. A self-driving car is shocking and unusual. They can't translate common languages on the fly. People are tracked-down by canvassing door to door.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to a ground-breaking A.I. which arrives fully mature, but for some reason, halts its development at the human level. No singularity for you. At one point the story goes on for more than five chapters but the author seems to forget the A.I. entirely. Its whole job in the book is to act as a problem-solving MacGuffin.
The sci-fi elements are just bad. Species from different planetary biomes can apparently have viable offspring... because "DNA and science and stuff." The good-guys are adopted by an alien creature that is, in all important ways, identical to a cat. A half-assed romance is attempted between the two leads but it feels forced. I could go on and on with a list of formulaic tropes but I'm done.
This story, set several hundred years in the future, could be translated to North America 20 years ago with only minor editing. A self-driving car is shocking and unusual. They can't translate common languages on the fly. People are tracked-down by canvassing door to door.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to a ground-breaking A.I. which arrives fully mature, but for some reason, halts its development at the human level. No singularity for you. At one point the story goes on for more than five chapters but the author seems to forget the A.I. entirely. Its whole job in the book is to act as a problem-solving MacGuffin.
The sci-fi elements are just bad. Species from different planetary biomes can apparently have viable offspring... because "DNA and science and stuff." The good-guys are adopted by an alien creature that is, in all important ways, identical to a cat. A half-assed romance is attempted between the two leads but it feels forced. I could go on and on with a list of formulaic tropes but I'm done.