Review: Fun, but flawed.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
I was looking forward to the continuation of this series and with the long delay between books I was hoping this one would be a little more polished. Unfortunately, this one was maybe the worst of the three, or maybe it seemed so because it is the third book in the series.***minor spoilers ahead***I almost deleted this book off my kindle at about the 10% mark. For some reason, the author(s) decided to have the characters partake in a lengthy review of the previous two books via an enormous amount of clunky dialogue. This is a common enough literary device to bring readers up to speed, but this was used FAR too heavily and in such an overt way that I began to wonder if some of the characters had suffered strokes in the last book and I missed it. Pages and pages of characters explaining things to other characters that they either were there for themselves or should have known already. In this case, either a thorough prologue or simple third party narration would have been preferred.The characters themselves were so one-dimensional that they had no discernible personality between them, if not for their name being used Warrior was the ONLY character that could be identified by their dialogue. The "science" was implausible as described, and the use of proper names like "The Ancient Ones" (after one character had been living through racial dreams of one of them) lent a juvenile feel to the book. The main thrust of defeating the AI race by introducing sex to them was an interesting concept, but handled in a puerile and unsubtle way.The ending also was a sticking point for me, it felt rushed and sloppy, but that's a matter of my own personal opinion.Ok... so that was some of the bad. Now the good;This really isn't a bad story, but by the third book I'd hoped for some more evolution in both the story telling and the characters. But, for $2.99 I would encourage anybody who liked the first two books to buy this one and give it a try. Your opinion may differ greatly from mine. In any case, I'll probably buy and read the next out of curiosity as to where the story goes.