Available 1 Dec 16
Fiction / Science Fiction
410 pages / 3443 KB
3 Stars
Legalities: I received a free electronic ARC from
NetGalley.com.
The story was kind of fun. The expositional filler was not.
I felt like they were using it to pad the word count.
It's been a while since I've read SF, and thought I'd give
this a try. Although the beginning started with a bang, literally, there were a
lot of areas that left me wondering. There were several areas where I could not
suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy the story.
An airliner crashes in Hong Kong, in a street, and there is
no conflagration?
A compound fracture is recognized in space, before the space
suit is removed?
A chopper shows up at a dig site and instead of using the
pad most dig sites have, they set down IN the site?
Thrillers are not my usual genre, and I made no effort to
figure this one out, but well before the ending, I had it "solved."
The fun part came when I realized I was right.
A good editor would have been a good investment.
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