Review: Sliding downhill
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
This series started off with a bang. I liked the first book. I enjoyed but was less impressed with the second. With this book, the series takes a serious downturn which reveals limitations in both plotting and prose style. It is simplistically written and presented, more and more cliched as it goes along. Oh, the basic idea wasn't bad. In fact, it was quite interesting, the key saving grace. There were all sorts of great things to do with the basic plot here. But, if the author has good ideas, he doesn't seem to execute them well. It reads at times more like a movie script than a novel. At one point, I couldn't help but think: if only someone like David Weber had taken this basic plot and run with it! It's worth a read, especially if you're keeping up with the series, but it is increasingly laconic, despite the supposed suspense and action.