Review: Slow start, Good book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
This was a good book with a slow start.  The main character, Mitch spends the first 20% of the book alone, giving it a castaway sort of feel.  The lack of human interaction in favor of build, build, build gets very tedious.  I just wanted to scream at him to stop wasting time milking and making cheese until he had found a girl to help him.  Also, sometimes it seamed like the author had taken some odd shortcuts.  Mitch needed to be rich.. so he is psychic and won the lottery.  For a brilliant, mechanically inclined man there could have been more logical routes to wealth.  Also, it waited until 80% of the book was done before giving background information on previous occupation and why he was reluctant with women.The world building was great with a bizzare mix of familiar and odd creatures.  Tech was near future for the most part, with the occasional odd far future tossed in ("molecular dissasembler" among people still using Ford trucks and Ipods?)Overall, once Mitch started to find other people and villages the story starts rolling along better.  A sequel would be welcome