Neptune's Brood

Having read ‘Saturn's Children', I was looking forward to this book as it was set in the same universe.

I was expecting a fun, sci-fi yarn but instead received an intricate and in-depth manifesto on banking and finance working across the vast distances of space and planets, with a story added on almost as an afterthought.

The very basic plot was rather dull and the characters were wafer-thin and instantly forgettable. The book was very hard going and I had to push myself at times to keep reading, hoping and praying that a seam of gold would soon appear and all of the groundwork and Basil Exposition would have been worthwhile.

Sadly, it never really happened and the book felt like reading the small print on the bottom of a loan or insurance application. In space.