Brightness Falls from the Air

My review of this started at 3 stars and then gradually reduced as I became more annoyed thinking about it. I found this to be largely badly written, to have huge logical flaws and, to top it all off, to be highly offensive. I am at a loss to understand why some people hold it in such high esteem.

I hesitate to use spoiler tags here, since I believe this should be written on the cover as a warning, however: one of the main "heroes" is an unashamed pedophile/child pornographer who, by the end of the book, is rewarded to the point of embarrassment for his actions and suffers no punishment in any shape or form; another of the characters (admittedly another child - a weirdly adult one) rewards themselves with one of the pedophile's 13 year old child actors and is particularly pleased because she has been "trained". WTF?

I only kept reading to the end in the hope that there would be some justification for inclusion of the child exploitation aspects of the story. You might think that this would end up being juxtaposed with the horrors inflicted on the aliens, with salutatory lessons learned by all involved but no: at best this is glossed over; at worst it is celebrated.

My personal recommendation: avoid.