Review: Takes me back.....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2012
Valhai is the first book in the Ammonite Galaxy series and what a great start!Valhai is the kind of science fiction that takes me back to the books I read growing up.  Andre Norton, Issac Asimov, Alan Dean Foster....  They are all authors I devoured when I was pre-teen and teen and this series reminds me of them, albeit updated accordingly.  "Snarky" dialogue wasn't the in thing when Norton and the others were the premier sci fi writers so the witty back and forth in these books is very much updated for today's audience.  It actually was pretty realistic dialogue based on what I've heard from kids recently :)I loved the characters, Grace, Diva, Six, Cimma and the rest and I really liked that they were all very much individuals with individual personalities and not just cardboard cutouts of each other.  Arcan is a great "alien" character and I found the premise really interesting.  Who does the planet really belong to???  I don't know if the author intended it, but I also thought it was a fascinating tie-in with some of what's going on in the world today.  How easy it is to do "evil" without even realizing or caring you're doing "evil", just because that's how it's always been done. Or because it's the way of your world or society. Never questioning whether or not it's right and can or should be changed.I really enjoyed Valhai and I'm looking forward to following the characters in the next book in the series.I received a free copy of this book in order to review it.