Take a photo of a barcode or cover
siriuschico 's review for:
Pandora's Star
by Peter F. Hamilton
I think Peter Hamilton is obsessed with trains. I swear that scenes about rails, carriages and locomotives contain much more emotions than any sex scene in Pandora's star.
But jokes aside, Pandora's star is an excellent space opera. It contains many interesting characters, an exciting view of the future, a lot of politics and a dash of science and bloodthirsty aliens. I loved some storylines - especially the one about Ozzie or Paula. And I'm very interested in the sequel. Yes, be prepared to read the second book because there is no conclusion here.
However, even though it is a solid book, some sequences have been a chore to read. Peter Hamilton is not very good at introductions- he just throws a reader into the sea of characters (until page 200, he keeps introducing new main characters!). This will get even worse when there are some party or political scenes, suddenly, he will throw in another twenty or so names of influential politicians, and we will never hear about them again. Justine's, Dudley's, Marc's or Kazimir's storylines were too long, tedious to get through, and it didn't feel that they brought too much to the overall story. They were ok, but they should be much shorter. And I hated how each new scene started with detailed descriptions of some new place or planet (which we would never visit again) and it took at least four pages until I finally got information on which storyline we have jumped now.
I like complex narratives, but I felt that Hamilton stretched his skills here. So even though I'm invested in the story and I will definitely read Judas Unchained, I will be very picky about some next series from the same author.
But jokes aside, Pandora's star is an excellent space opera. It contains many interesting characters, an exciting view of the future, a lot of politics and a dash of science and bloodthirsty aliens. I loved some storylines - especially the one about Ozzie or Paula. And I'm very interested in the sequel. Yes, be prepared to read the second book because there is no conclusion here.
However, even though it is a solid book, some sequences have been a chore to read. Peter Hamilton is not very good at introductions- he just throws a reader into the sea of characters (until page 200, he keeps introducing new main characters!). This will get even worse when there are some party or political scenes, suddenly, he will throw in another twenty or so names of influential politicians, and we will never hear about them again. Justine's, Dudley's, Marc's or Kazimir's storylines were too long, tedious to get through, and it didn't feel that they brought too much to the overall story. They were ok, but they should be much shorter. And I hated how each new scene started with detailed descriptions of some new place or planet (which we would never visit again) and it took at least four pages until I finally got information on which storyline we have jumped now.
I like complex narratives, but I felt that Hamilton stretched his skills here. So even though I'm invested in the story and I will definitely read Judas Unchained, I will be very picky about some next series from the same author.