Review: Couldn't finish.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
I did try, but really it was hard going. I’m sure there’s a good book in there somewhere, but I haven’t got the time or patience to find it.  I read somewhere the book has undergone substantial editing since it was first published, and if that is so, then I can't imagine what it was like before.  Adjectives used instead of nouns, adverbs instead of nouns and sometimes entirely the wrong word.  For example "You are referring to a conspiracy? A conspiracy by one or more people to insight revolt and uprising through the Confederation?"  I actually had to stop at that one for a minute before the penny dropped and I realised what he was talking about!  (incite) Some of the situations were simply implausible, like in the middle of a shootout in a bar the hero rescues a dancer and is so busy enjoying her “endless flesh” (???) when she kisses him, he forgets their precarious position even though he was just about to throw a grenade! Some of his action scenes later in the book such as that on the Syndicate station were miles better, and really perhaps Mr. Smith should stick to that kind of writing and leave the slush and some of the more tedious prose out.  No sorry did try, but just couldn’t finish it.