Review: Interesting Sci-fi elements
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2012
I love sci-fi and I was not disappointed with Alec's Dream. The first few chapters were a little hard to get through because I don't have that much of a techy background, but once you get the main gist of what they made it's easy to know what's going on. The book covers a lot, and in some places I had trouble keeping track of who was who and how they all knew each other because there are a lot of character. However, you don't really need to know who all the minor characters are. Birchbauer does a good job of making the main characters different enough so they were easy to remember.I loved Birchbauer's characters. The Kan-ji were suitably creepy, the Cheorgh were just so nice and interesting, and Loomius was downright terrifying. I fell in love with Jessie. She started out as a typical teen but became really strong when they ended up on the Kan-ji ship. I know it had something to do with the knowledge she gained from the stone chair but what Birchbauer does really well is to keep the mystery surrounding her sudden influx of knowledge a secret. I wanted to know so badly how Chandler knew her.The only thing that was really jarring was the transitions between the characters thoughts. It wasn't so much changing the focus to different characters as it was that sometimes weeks or months would pass and there was no warning. There were a few times that we started focusing on another character and what I thought was the same day or maybe a few days later, ended being a few months. That's the only reason why this book is not getting 5 stars because otherwise the book was fantastic.