Review: Not as Interesting as Earlier Books
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
The series was originally built around the eponymous heroine and was a lot of fun, with uncomplicated plots and some interesting ideas on physics and cosmology.  I (mostly) set aside the rotten editing, figuring it would get better.This book picks up in the middle of an invasion from another galaxy, continuing a cliff-hanger from the previous book.  Most of the story narrates an attempt to stop the baddies by invading their galaxy and counter-attacking.  While the action scenes are fairly well constructed, the 'gee-whiz' factor of finding out how powerful and smart Kimbridge is has petered out.  The plot and writing fall short of compensating for the lack of character growth of Kimbridge and her close team.  Seeing how she'd innovate with new capabilities was a large part of the fun of earlier books, to me.  A 3-star, so-so book, in short.The proofing is the worst so far, which says a lot.  This time, there are gobs of run-together words, so I'm safe to say that no electronic spellchecking was involved.  Lose another star.Will I buy the next one?  I'll get a sample first, to see if the story improves and the proofing is over the greatly-reduced threshold I've set for this series.  We'll see.