Review: Creative vision but lacking character development
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
We start off with an assassin who is rather a government operative with license to kill although no James Bond.  The highpoint of the whole book was in the first couple of chapters where the main character, a methane breather, is trying to get his wife out of prison but arrived too late.  The rest of his adventures are basically trying to get his wife's genome from these scientific monk types of another race by exchanging his services.  The rest of the races mentioned are oxygen breathers, a big bad tree dwelling caste society with a huge invulnerable fleet and a civilized water world inward focused peoples.There is very little character development and I found myself not really caring who lives and who dies.  Some of the action sequences are imaginative but on the whole, the book left me empty.  The main character by the way spends most of his time in another race's body sharing it with the owner.  This could have been quite interesting but the author didn't seem to want to develop a relationship.  By the way, I received this book free in exchange for an unbiased review.