Review: Get the sample first
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
Don't waste your money on the book until you have read the sample (or as much of it as you can stand).(SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE ON)I found the whole plot to be unacceptable. It is one series of convenient coincidence and unbelievable happenstance after another. Yes, I know it's SciFi, but use of those sorts of easy-out gimmicks is no substitute for a a real story.Examples? First, it's 2067 and AI is common. Supposedly real AI, like we'll have a conversation and you can choose your own name AI. Yet the same AI doesn't bother to report a micro-meteor impact or the fact that two beyond-our-tecnology objects are approaching. (Because of "how incredibly literal AI's tended to be"!)Yes, there just happen to be aliens, who just happen to be targeted by other aliens, who just happen to be taken out by the first bunch who swore their society "could never take a life". The heroine just happens to be able to save the "good guy" from running into Mars (with her "chemical thrusters") and dies in the process... sort of. Then, after a 50 year resurrection process (by the "saved" alien) she is accepted back into humanity with wink and a shrug. Resurrected after hitting Mars at 600+ mph? Even with alien wreckage the bureaucrats just let her back in after a few months? Based on the fact that she "got angry and showed emotion"? AAARRRGGGHHH!Really? All that? And I'm not even done with the sample?Actually, yes, I'm done with the whole thing.