Review: Epic in scope, Mediocre in method
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
I debated for a while on how, or even if, I would approach the review of One Giant Leap.  I will just paste the notes I took while reading:"Reads like juvenilia,  not a novel.  Background information seemed interesting,  but presented so dryly, my eyes kept drifting past the words.  Author tries too hard to establish over and over how fantasticlly wealthy and important the family is.  Comma splice errors abound, sudden sections of simple sentences, "And" as the beginning of sentences pepper the pages. Gratuitous expletives.  The dialogue between characters read like a twenty-somethings instead of wealthy, educated people.If this was a physical copy, it would be in the Goodwill box."The theme is a good choice, the plot seemed to be on pace, but the writing and character development worked against Sterling's fertile imagination.  However,  I kept the rating at 3 stars as I can see that a much younger set may possibly enjoy this book in spite of lacking polish.