Jeff
Not quite as good as the other entry in the series, but still a reasonably enjoyable read.
The injection of some real-world politics and single-purpose characters felt a little off, and while it was satisfying to see them get their comeuppance, it was a hollow satisfaction, the kind you get from junk food, not a real meal.
As I said in my review of Outland, the idea of this universe reminds me a lot of a Steven Gould book. In Outland, it was mostly a reminder of Wildside, but this one felt a bit more like the third and fourth books in the Jumper series, which also had a story that seemingly had modern-day (for the time) politics grafted on, diminishing the actual story in the process.
At the end of this book, not really all that much has changed since the beginning. A few new plot threads for future books have cropped up, sure, but we've still got a collection of survivors from the Yellowstone eruption, some conflicts among them, and no real change to anything of significance.
I await the next entry in the books, hoping it can actually drive the overarching plot forwards, and not get bogged down in itself like this one seemed to.
Not quite as good as the other entry in the series, but still a reasonably enjoyable read.
The injection of some real-world politics and single-purpose characters felt a little off, and while it was satisfying to see them get their comeuppance, it was a hollow satisfaction, the kind you get from junk food, not a real meal.
As I said in my review of Outland, the idea of this universe reminds me a lot of a Steven Gould book. In Outland, it was mostly a reminder of Wildside, but this one felt a bit more like the third and fourth books in the Jumper series, which also had a story that seemingly had modern-day (for the time) politics grafted on, diminishing the actual story in the process.
At the end of this book, not really all that much has changed since the beginning. A few new plot threads for future books have cropped up, sure, but we've still got a collection of survivors from the Yellowstone eruption, some conflicts among them, and no real change to anything of significance.
I await the next entry in the books, hoping it can actually drive the overarching plot forwards, and not get bogged down in itself like this one seemed to.