Review: strange dreams -- didn't mind that it was so long
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2012
There is a lot I like about this book. A few things I didn't. I got into it fairly quickly, seems to be a YA book, but I don't mind that so much if the story is good. I liked most of the characters. Some errors a copy editors would've caught, but nothing truly annoying. I thought about it while I was not reading it which is always a Good Thing.The twist at the end was not unexpected -- I saw it coming very early on, after Kandari's first overly long preachy lecture. Damn. Even though I knew it was inevitable, I was still interested enough in the characters to want to see what happened and how things were resolved. I sort of bought the technology that enabled it all, but not that it would happen at that level within the next 50 years (I can't really get into what, exactly, I didn't buy because that would involve spoilers).And whatever happened to Flora's father? And there was never a rationale for what Romulus did -- what was the purpose? What did he have to gain? This was a key plot point and didn't make much sense other than to move the story to the next plot point and this is what made it a four-star review for me. I would also like to know what happened in the world in the end -- more of a resolution than we got.