Review: Still hanging in there...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
Not quite so much of the guilt thing here, which if you've read my posts on the first two books are what really take away from the story. I have to wonder if they could really get around in that time period as fast as they did but that is just a small detail that is relatively unimportant in a sci-fi novel. Over all this was a much better written story than the first two. So why only four stars?- Well, there is still that guilt thing that Hunter survives on which takes away from the story line. Throughout this entire story he has been either feeling guilt or insane from proximity to the orb.- I think the story would have been just as good if they had just gone up the northern coast to the point the discovered the "shack".  Everything from leaving the Roman fort to that point was unnecessary to the story.- The entire section where Hunter was in the "shack" (I'm trying to critique without giving away anything here) could have been cut down to a few pages and still made the point. How much of that time in the restaurant was really relative to building and enhancing the main story line... just a few pages. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and a place for carrying on with details like that, just not unless they enhance the story. I understand that stories will have rabbit trails, in this case side stories that don't directly enhance the main story line, but these non supportive rabbit trails should be short and then get us back to the main story. Hey, I'm a big Heinlein fan and I've read some detailed, convoluted rambling in a story and loved it, but Heinlein pulled them off and this author doesn't have the experience to keep us bogged down so long in minutia like that.Bottom line is that I really like the main concept and story line and hate these long winded rabbit trails. I found my self skimming over paragraph after paragraph to get over so may of those that, in my opinion, detracted from the story.I'll still read the fourth book but that will be just to see how the entire story ends.