Review: one to watch out for
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2013
I loved it. The only reason why I gave it four stars and not five is that the story had some dings in them. They aren't anything too major. The real meat of the story doesn't happen until halfway through the book. It sounds like a drag but there is so much character development and introduction that once it gets to the heart of the problem you are just there in the action until the end.One thing I had to wrap my head around was the laws for this world that the author had created. A lot of things happened that is pretty far removed from reality. But hey this is fiction after all, I just had to step away from my over-logical mind to believe the world that he had created. Venus really is a place out of this world. I think if you are like me you need to definitely suspend your beliefs in order to truly enjoy this work.My main issue that cost this work a star was the abrupt ending. There's a part where the scientists are mulling over the information they've received about Venus, and they reach a conclusion but before they could tell our heroes the story ends. It was a bit unsatisfying because I needed to know. But perhaps I didn't need to know. It is a hell of a way to end a book. It's a good setup for a sequel or an idea to make this a novel-length story.