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A review by melbsreads
Deep Sky by Patrick Lee
2.0
Plot summary: In 1978, a breach was opened between this world and the future. Since then, the breach has been delivering alien technology into the world, which is kept hidden by a secret government agency called Tangent. In the present day, a missile hits the White House, killing the president. Tangent agent Travis Chase, along with his partner Paige Campbell and technology expert Bethany Stewart, has 24 hours to try and solve a mystery dating back to the opening of the breach.
Thoughts: As a disclaimer, I haven't read the previous two books in the series. If I had, perhaps I would have been more taken with this, the final volume in the trilogy. I found the alien technology quite confusing, and the jumps into the past created a large number of characters to try and keep straight. The main focus of the story throughout is Travis - Paige and Bethany had exceptionally minor roles throughout.
I will give it credit for including a big twist that I didn't see coming. But the ending delivered a major dose of "WTF", and didn't really seem to fit in particularly well with the rest of the story - almost like the author got to the climax of the story and ran out of ideas, so quickly made something up and crammed it in.
It was okay, but I didn't enjoy it enough to read the other two.
Thoughts: As a disclaimer, I haven't read the previous two books in the series. If I had, perhaps I would have been more taken with this, the final volume in the trilogy. I found the alien technology quite confusing, and the jumps into the past created a large number of characters to try and keep straight. The main focus of the story throughout is Travis - Paige and Bethany had exceptionally minor roles throughout.
I will give it credit for including a big twist that I didn't see coming. But the ending delivered a major dose of "WTF", and didn't really seem to fit in particularly well with the rest of the story - almost like the author got to the climax of the story and ran out of ideas, so quickly made something up and crammed it in.
It was okay, but I didn't enjoy it enough to read the other two.