Review: Just pretty boring
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
The title would imply far more excitement than is actually in this book. The whole first half is a real snooze, then it perks up for a bit, then gets boring again. I was totally skimming the last chapter or two.The writing is only average at best with dialogue that is pretty stilted in parts. Many of the characters are shallow and one dimensional. And there is a serious lack of description in this book. I have no idea what any of these people looked like. The planet Urslat is just Earth, right down to the pizza. Maybe all these colonies we're told about were originally earth colonies? We're never told that, but maybe it was in an earlier story.There are some serious plot issues... One minute Zerris is too polluted to live on, and the next they want to return there. The Zerris folks refuse to leave, then they just do. I was confused.The book had no un-put-down-ability. I could read a chapter, set it down, and not feel inclined to pick it up again for days. I read the last 20% at one time just because I wanted it to be over.