Kalimantan

The story at its core is not bad at all. Far from the best book I've ever read but fair in most respects. There were many elements that seemed rather out of place in this rather short book, such as the briefly touched-upon alien spacecraft and left me searching for more. (Did I miss something, or was it simply left to the reader to fill in the blanks that Shepard left out?) Either way, the lack of any chapters whatsoever combined with the long and rambling paragraphs made it seem like a long stream of words with no breath in-between. Thus I subtracted 1 star from this otherwise almost-4-star-worthy novel.