Review: An entertaining trilogy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2012
This type of story is somewhat old fashioned and harkens back to "Doc" Smith, but I have always enjoyed them. The Lens of Time series (which I think has more to come)shows exponential growth in weaponry science, heroes and heroines of extraordinary intelligence and intuition, a lot of luck, cleverness withoout prior experience as guidance, and general daring-do that strains credibility. But what the heck - it's just a yarn and it's fun.I liked all three of the books adequatly to keep reading, and will likely pick up the following book(s) to see where it goes. After all, there are only a couple of reasons to read a book. One is to gain knowledge - and this won't do a lot in that regard. The other is to be entertained and to escape the day to day drudgery of life - and this serves quite well in this regard.And anyway - how can you not help rooting for the snot-nosed kid from the east when he comes up agains John Wesley Harding in a Showdown?Ender's Game, or Dune, or Childhood's End its not. But Lens of Time books are fun and worth the read. Enjoy!