Review: somewhere in between -- or a question of personal preferences
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2013
If you will like this book or not depends on whether you like the narrator's voice (I didn't connect with her). What I liked about the book was the explanations I got about worm-hole creation. I could have done with a little math here and there but understand that most people would hate that (I'm a freak in that respect). I was a bit sorry that the more technical parts of the main character's job were often cut short (probably to not bore the reader).The rest of the book was straightforward and flowed without exciting ups and downs for nearly half the book, then, the pace picks up a little. Unfortunately, the author decided to write the story as diary entries which made it clear from the set-up that the main character would survive. That dampened the tension considerably.There was fairly little conflict during the book until the pirates invaded, and they were so dumb that they "forgot" (conveniently) about a method of transport that would work against them. Also, not one of the pirates was characterized. The bad guys stayed faceless which made them less effective as "baddies". Also, I believe that the author didn't dare to really hurt the characters she liked. She choses to kill two people who are in love instead of showing us the grief of a survivor. I didn't much care for the MC or the guy she fell for. There was little in the area of character development.