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A review by huerca_armada
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
2.0
Ponderously slow. I get that it's supposed to be a space opera rather than hard science-fiction in the vein of Asimov, Clark, and so on, but even still, there is entirely way too much going on in the book to justify its absurd length at 950+ pages. It's not a good sign that it took nearly four months to plow through the middle arc of the book, in which the exploration of the titular star is going on...
With that said, when the ball finally gets rolling, it gets rolling well in hand. Hamilton can write some good action sequences, with the first major conflict of the book being fairly gripping, and the last 100 pages being a fairly nice payoff. Ultimately however, more than a third of the book is non-essential fluff that could have stood to be cut. Disinterested in reading the follow-up; simply too much
With that said, when the ball finally gets rolling, it gets rolling well in hand. Hamilton can write some good action sequences, with the first major conflict of the book being fairly gripping, and the last 100 pages being a fairly nice payoff. Ultimately however, more than a third of the book is non-essential fluff that could have stood to be cut. Disinterested in reading the follow-up; simply too much