10-28-2015, 09:36 AM
Yeah, .....
This is the third book in the trilogy. The promise and the excitement of the first book did not carry through to the third. Where I couldn't describe how good the first book was, I can describe how bad is the third book.
If you are going to have a dramatic crash into the space station, shouldn't you actually describe it rather than refer to it after it has happened? Especially in a book that has so few dramatic scenes. Lose a couple of the hundreds of talking about things scenes for an actual dramatic scene.
How about having a few of the characters be stable rather than constantly being in tears or having to go to medical to regulate your meds because you are having a nervous breakdown?
The book spent a lot of time flying around the solar station, talking about what they are going to do. Lots of people cried when they learned of the plans.
And what seemed fresh and exciting in the first book was just repetitive in this book. Ooh AI's and ancillaries, okay, what else you got? Not a lot.
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The killer for me in this book was the dramatic finale which happened in an airlock between ship and space station. Basically, the big bad quit when hearing that she had broken a treaty with another alien race. Thanks for playing, let's go to the epilogue.
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Maybe it would be better if I read the trilogy as one book to get a consistent through line. But I'm not going back. The last book was very disappointing.
This is the third book in the trilogy. The promise and the excitement of the first book did not carry through to the third. Where I couldn't describe how good the first book was, I can describe how bad is the third book.
If you are going to have a dramatic crash into the space station, shouldn't you actually describe it rather than refer to it after it has happened? Especially in a book that has so few dramatic scenes. Lose a couple of the hundreds of talking about things scenes for an actual dramatic scene.
How about having a few of the characters be stable rather than constantly being in tears or having to go to medical to regulate your meds because you are having a nervous breakdown?
The book spent a lot of time flying around the solar station, talking about what they are going to do. Lots of people cried when they learned of the plans.
And what seemed fresh and exciting in the first book was just repetitive in this book. Ooh AI's and ancillaries, okay, what else you got? Not a lot.
Begin Spoiler
The killer for me in this book was the dramatic finale which happened in an airlock between ship and space station. Basically, the big bad quit when hearing that she had broken a treaty with another alien race. Thanks for playing, let's go to the epilogue.
End Spoiler
Maybe it would be better if I read the trilogy as one book to get a consistent through line. But I'm not going back. The last book was very disappointing.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit