Dan
1.5/5 stars
As much as I liked the first book, as much did I dislike the second.
The once smart, strong female MC was relegated to literal kitchen and children duty, spending the rest of the time in bed, fainting or waiting for her guy to rescue everyone. Seriously? Why even have her as a PoV at this point.
The story revolves around shallow minded human vs human conflicts. While this is probably how it would be it's utterly boring to read about. There is so much more interesting stuff to explore than Prof. Chandler's personal vendetta against James.
Skip this one, read the summary and move on to book 3. It's not worth your time.
2.5/5 stars
Even though the novel was rather short it had sever pacing issues. Way too long lead up, way too short ‘mystery', it was solved as soon as it was introduced and the last third of the book was just pointless.
I liked the idea of the story but not the execution. Would not recommend.
Mr. Riddle's newer books are far superior.
Book: 3/5 stars
Series: 4/5 stars
This book should not exist. So little happens, so much is padded with meaningless blabbering.
There are dialogues with one line per page, filled with the authors, sometimes nonsensical, blabbering in between. It's a pity such an awesome series ends in such an unsatisfying way.
The explanations given are chaotic, illogical and just hand waved away.
The prose got to me at the end, in a bad way. The first 2 books were stuffed with so much awesomeness that the weird prose did not bother me too much but once you are left with not much story and just the prose, that is often hard to comprehend, it gets old quickly. Had to force myself to read through it.
Overall it was not a ‘bad' book, it just pales in comparison to the first two books which are masterpieces.
Still one of the best series I have read in the last years. Would recommend.
Well this was a disappointment. This book throws you in an awesome mystery and provides 0 answers at the end. 3/4 of the book is wasted with pointless soap opera like human drama frenemy BS. The author could have used those pages to explore the sci-fi elements and actually provide some answers ans closure but instead he chose to bore us with 2 women pickering. There are some interesting things happening in part 3 of the book but it was condensed on a few pages in favour of f...-ing human drama.
Should have DNFed this one.
This is less of a novel and more of a loosely connected short story collection, which is infuriating.
The overarching story arcs are fantastic and interesting but get interrupted by the short stories which shed light on the lives of the main characters, much like the first Hyperion book.
If that is your jam, great, if not this is going to be a disappointment.
The Ending is just great though. Bought book #2 already.
Let's get this straight, this is not a 4 star book but I enjoyed it like a 4 star book....
Yes the premise is ludicrous on so many levels and the ‘logic' is preposterous but as soon as you can silence the voice in the back of your head that says ‘thats not how that works ..... that does not make any sense .... wait what? wtf? no!... omg she said fermi paradox ...' this book is so much fun and the definition of a page turner.
Gripping from the start to the last chapter with twists and turns I did not see coming, at all.
Will most definitely read another book by Mr. Riddle.