The Echo

James Smythe is a very up and down writer for me. I loved The Testimony, but thought No Harm Can Come To A Good Man was a terribly thought out mess. His other books are somewhere between these two poles, and The Echo fits right in the middle. It's a follow up to The Explorer, and is about a second mission sent to the mysterious anomaly in deep space. It's a decent read, with some properly horrific sequences, and the mental disintegration of the main character is effectively communicated, but ultimately the rebranding of these novels as The Anomaly Quartet makes you know you're only partway through the story. The finished thing is some years off I suspect, and ultimate judgement has to wait for that.