Review: Not convinced
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2013
I love scifi. Stories about humanity venturing out into space to settle a new world have always fascinated me, so naturally the synopsis sounded very intriguing.The story itself is nice. Earth stands on the brink of destruction. As humanity works on project Exodus to send a ship out into space with 1,600 people aboard to settle a new planet, we follow the stories of various characters. While those characters are mostly believable and well-developed, I felt that the writing itself was not so good. I wouldn't say bad because it wasn't but it did give me a hard time reading through the book. There were a lot of "there". And passive story-telling was being used more than I would have liked. Company CEOs used some rather vulgar speech in their meetings that felt inappropriate for their position, and made them unbelievable.I also would have liked if the whole "Mars incident" had been explained more. Or the science behind rogue planets.Other than that I did enjoy it but I probably won't pick up any other installments in this series.