Review: Interesting Idea but...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2012
The plot is a good one but there were too many aspects of the story that were just not believable, even for sci fi. For one, as each new person is introduced to the quest, he or she signs on without questioning how preposterous the quest is - the search for ancient technology to save the world led by an alien.  Modes of travel became a bit rustic as the story went on too. It starts with flying and driving from place to place and devolves to buying ancient freighters that need 2 weeks of work to get them going and hikes across dangerous places. Then at the very end we find out that the alien who has been helping the rescue team has been using an underground transportation system -- why didn't she bring the team through that system? Also there were many areas in the story where the author jumped ahead by stating that such and such happened rather than continuing in story-telling style. This made it a bit choppy.All in all, not a bad read but could have been better.