Review: Not for everyone
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
Just finished reading this book - it's quite a massive tome, a lot of reading.The story is not bad at all, and deals with having to survive on a hostile world and how to build an infrastructure from scratch. This is fascinating, what needs to be done to get there.It's a bit of a slog to get to the end though, mainly because everything is described in detail - I didn't really mind, this was my "book on the train whenever I have some time".A suggestion for the author : there are a lot of "he snarled", "he growled" - after a while it gets very repetitive, especially in a long book as this. It's not natural to growl all the time...Somehow in the end I felt I couldn't really connect with the characters. I'm left with the feeling that I read a historic journal from somebody interesting that is worthwhile reading, but I didn't care for the characters as I do in other books.