Review: An interesting take but in the end unsatisfying
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2013
I really wanted to like this book.  The author's writing skills are good and the story is a really interesting and fresh take on science fiction.  It skips so many of the cliche devices common in today's writing...I read the sample and based on that I bought the book.  The sample is a terrific example of this author's writing and narrative skills.  However it is not a good example of the story you'll be told.Being an Omnibus I have to realize this was 5 separate books.  But those 5 books should tell a consistent story and they don't; it's all over the place.  We're in the future.  Now we're in the past but different characters.  Back to the future with the first characters.  Now back to a different past with another set of characters.  What happened to the first set?  OOps, future again, another set of characters.  Hey, back to the past, more new characters.  Oh, now it's the future and we've got a whole new race?  Wait, past.  New race, new characters... futu... what the hell is going on here?At the end of the day when I finished the book I was glad.  Not that I'd read it, but that I wouldn't need to read any more of it.  The characters come and go... you never find out what happens to any of them.  You never get involved with any of the characters... you simply just don't care.  Live die... whatever.  Next page there will be a different one anyway.  They never get a chance to develop or grow on you.Again, I really wanted to like this book.  The writing is nice, the editing is good and the story is a fresh idea.  It's just not told well.