astator 's review for:

The Flight of the Eisenstein by James Swallow

3.75

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Rather a pivotal novel in the series and to be frank, it kinda underwhelmed me? The escape and flight across the Galaxy was terribly short. Situations/perils are repeated and the pacing feels off? I wouldn’t mind all the other remarks and truly loved some stuff in their (such as the cups ceremony) but the pacing between situations feels off. It pushes you away from the story and interesting beats. The last chapters on Luna feel forced and tacked on for padding or because some stuff needed to be set up even tho the story had already reached it’s conclusion.  That said, the good parts were very good. And the internal conflict of Garo, a man losing everything he’s known except for his staunch believes is strongly written.