Review: A Lot Of Words For Little Reward
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
I see this book I obtained as a free offering for the Kindle is receiving a lot of praise.  I guess I am someone who enjoys hard Science Fiction with a strong, coherent plot line and didn't have the same positive response to the book many others evidently have had.  It took me a while to finish the book.  I kept thinking that this story could have been completed with a lot less words and I found it grew tiresome waiting for the main character to figure out what was going on.  How many times were his memories almost there and then gone again, very repetitive.  The back and forth between alien worlds and minds was interesting at first but the long drawn out descriptions of worlds without any real connection or understanding became boring. I guess I should have flipped to the end to see how it turned out, but I like to read a book through, and so I did.  To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what the ending meant.  For one thing the author seems to be trying to convey some esoteric idea that one soul can have many lives on many worlds. My personal interpretation (and I could be way off here) is that the story is a roundabout telling of the Biblical story of the fall, where Lucifer/Satan (Him) fell from grace and continually creates misery in the creation, while at the same time angelic forces continue to do battle to save mankind (souls). I put the story in a quasi sword and sorcery genre with spiritual overtones. In the end I gave it three stars because it held enough of my interest to finish the book and there were few editing mistakes.