Review: A book that will leave you feeling satisfied like a good meal.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
Betrayal on Triton begins fast and reads like a video game. The action, Smart, and smart-*ssed dialog is king here and sets the tone for in your face realness that keeps up throughout the book.That is not to say the character development isn't there though. I liked the main character Riley very much. He is a hard-boiled guy with a compassionate streak and is, like characters in Henry's other works, raw and very humanly flawed. I love that tho. Especially in Science Fiction. This genre can breed such flat and unrealistic characters or outlandishly grotesque stereotypes. Henry's character Riley is just your normal guy with a possibility to do heroic things. There are sentients too in this story and they get some front and center time too. The sentence that really hooked me was "And why can't you admit that humans and sentients fall for each other? It just happens"After he's caught by Lunaris Corporation while "acquiring" goods on Mars, Riley is given a choice. Slave for Dr Xiao or be tried with a laundry list of crimes that will put him in a cell for the rest of his life. Guess which one he chooses.I would love to see more details about the setting. i would like to see it more as the author must see it in his mind but does not share with the reader. This does not stop me from anticipating turning the page and reading on though. Though this book is short enough to read in one sitting; I would have liked more, at the end of it I felt like I had had a good meal and not just a light snack. Very satisfying!The characters are sufficiently developed to trigger my compassion and interest in them this continued throughout the rest of the book. I would be very interested in reading more of Riley's adventures.