A review by bedwinnjamin
Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

This book had some interesting ideas and worlds to discover, but that's not why I was interested in the Foundation series.  I truly wanted to know what happened in the 1000 years of Foundation crises, and we were only up to year 500 at this point.  Thankfully the characters have remained the same and the story picks up where we left off, but we're so off the beaten trail, Asmiov may have brought new ones into it anyway.  This book was a bit too preachy and humanist for me.  The entire decision of forever resting on one guy is interesting if you make it interesting, but there was no real character growth even from the previous book to this one.  So it didn't really build to anything spectacular.  This book felt more like a sight seeing visit to worlds that Asimov had already built in the Robots series.  It's just not what I was looking for.