Review: OK but not as good as the first volume, needs editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Maybe a 3.5 for a good plot but flawed execution.I did enjoy "the Pattern Ship"  the first volume in this trilogy.  I realize that the author has a goal of issuing a new novel every 90 days or so but, in this case his quickly released sequel has suffered as a result.After the first book was so good I really wanted to like this sequel, but while the plot was OK, if  somewhat juvenile in spots, there were just too many annoying mistakes;  badly chosen words, British idiom (“going off piste”?), awkward phrases, several paragraphs where the story just degenerated into incomprehensibility and, here and there, some real purple prose.