Review: SciFi on acid...a strange, long trip...but at its core, enthralling.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2012
I think there's going to be a split in reviews for this series...those who like the idea of an uncontrolled, chaotic journey, and those who need a more defined, or linear storyline. This series is a roller coaster in the dark, you'll never see the turns and loops coming but you'll certainly feel them if you can stay with the ride long enough.I can't give you a similar reference for the story...i've never read one as unpredictable and chaotic as this one. Somewhere halfway through the second book i found the elusive lines that hold it all together, the unseen spine that aligns and becomes the  pattern for this series...A quest, where the main character is joined by others in similar situations all with the one goal of getting home only to find that along the way is where the story happens and diversions become increasingly important, frustrating the effort of going home....an apt analogy of real life...Not a book i think for light readers, but for those who go deep and enjoy long stories it should satisfy. Every book could have been done better, the technology in SciFi books is usually explainable even if in fictional ways, but here there is much that never gets explained, it's vague even to the characters most times, but i didn't find it onerous or that it detracts from the story.I've made my way through the second book and have not started the third...the first and second book were set in very different surroundings, and the third book looks to be yet another world to explore...a good thing.