Review: Interesting ideas
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2013
My scoring system.  I reserve five stars for the best book I've read in a long time.  That being said, I really enjoyed this one.  I thought it was the best of the three that I read.One of the things I liked about this book is, that, unlike the first book, the action was toned down, and there was not that frantic feeling that Spire has to be in deadly danger every second of the book.  Although most of the characters (even the antagonists, of course), were in some kind of danger or other, it was laid back and mellow compared to the first.I did enjoy the obligatory female character, although I would like to see books where the female characters (not just character -- a female marine could have been included, for instance) are there purely for the same reason the men are there and NOT Spire's love interest.I don't think this is a spoiler, but what do I know? : )  I found the subject matter interesting, and enjoyed the explanation for the Foo Fighters.  It is as reasonable as anything anyone else knows, and the German scientists were exceptional.One thing for the author.  The last time you wrote it, you finally got it right!  Leant is the Brit spelling, not lent.  Way less editing errors.  There was one scene that really aggravated me, though.  Spoiler -- Spire's taxi was waiting for him.  In order to keep him from using the taxi to escape, she disables the driver, it doesn't even say she takes the keys, then opens the bonnet and --disconnects the battery cables?  Really??  *I* could fix that, and I don't even know where to put the cables to jump the battery.So, even with that snaffu, I enjoyed the book, and am looking forward to the next one.