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A review by skippen
Prador Moon: A Novel of the Polity by Neal Asher
2.0
Pardor Moon is the story a space station that is attacked during an ambassadorial visit by the Pardor to the Polity, and the aftermath of such attack.
This book was at times very interesting, and but at most times, it was dis-jointed and never felt that had any focus. Solid writing, and some very good characters. Despite being very short, the book never felt that it had any focus. The intial story of the attack by the Pardor is interesting, and I quite liked it, but after that attack, we are moved all over the place--jumping from character to character without any context of how they connect or matter to the central storyline.
There are some really neat ideas in this, good characters are started but feel very forced in this short novel that feels like it is in the middle of an established universe/story despite being listed as the first novel in the series. I have no issue with being dropped into the middle of a story, but you need to keep focused on single point, and Asher does not do this. We have multiple storylines that do, in the end, intersect at the end, but he gives us no indication of how the matter to each other in the meantime until he resolves the story in the last 20 pages.
There are some really neat ideas in this book that I would like to see more of. There are characters that I really enjoyed, but everything is just so disjointed that you lose interest in them. I have some desire to continue with this universe, but this unfocused introduction does not inspire to read any more in the Polity cycle.
This book was at times very interesting, and but at most times, it was dis-jointed and never felt that had any focus. Solid writing, and some very good characters. Despite being very short, the book never felt that it had any focus. The intial story of the attack by the Pardor is interesting, and I quite liked it, but after that attack, we are moved all over the place--jumping from character to character without any context of how they connect or matter to the central storyline.
There are some really neat ideas in this, good characters are started but feel very forced in this short novel that feels like it is in the middle of an established universe/story despite being listed as the first novel in the series. I have no issue with being dropped into the middle of a story, but you need to keep focused on single point, and Asher does not do this. We have multiple storylines that do, in the end, intersect at the end, but he gives us no indication of how the matter to each other in the meantime until he resolves the story in the last 20 pages.
There are some really neat ideas in this book that I would like to see more of. There are characters that I really enjoyed, but everything is just so disjointed that you lose interest in them. I have some desire to continue with this universe, but this unfocused introduction does not inspire to read any more in the Polity cycle.