Review: Surprising
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2013
The plot turns, nay "teleports" 3 parsecs south of the expected course. I was blindsided by the new direction, and the speed of events. So many surprising changes in this book: scale, pace, and plot-wise, that I can only assume the author decided to shake things up. There's a feeling of discontinuity between this one and the earlier books. Maybe things happened a bit too fast. Ironically, the one time he keeps the same protagonist, he accelerates events so much and in so many different directions that I feel it would have been a good spot for a time skip and his usual protagonist change. This was a wild ride, but where I felt more involved before, I now feel more detached again. We have little in common with this new hardened humanity. Good read.