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A review by timinbc
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.0
A competent space opera, I suppose.
It's too long. There are too many stock characters. Grumpy Olli. A character all the others unjustifiably hate. Etc. Etc.
Some of the alien species are interestingly presented.
The "only we can navigate subspace" is badly worn, but AT certainly needs subspace to make everyone able to whip around the universe as if it were the size of Manhattan.
And as others have noted, there are WAY too many cases of character X arriving at location Y *just* in time to advance the plot.
+1 for the Architects being something almost beyond our comprehension.
AT can do better, but hey, he doesn't have to hit a home run every time up. Maybe #2 in this series will step ahead. I'll probably read it.
It's too long. There are too many stock characters. Grumpy Olli. A character all the others unjustifiably hate. Etc. Etc.
Some of the alien species are interestingly presented.
The "only we can navigate subspace" is badly worn, but AT certainly needs subspace to make everyone able to whip around the universe as if it were the size of Manhattan.
And as others have noted, there are WAY too many cases of character X arriving at location Y *just* in time to advance the plot.
+1 for the Architects being something almost beyond our comprehension.
AT can do better, but hey, he doesn't have to hit a home run every time up. Maybe #2 in this series will step ahead. I'll probably read it.