Review: Could have been great
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
This could have been a great book.  The story would have been great but it was just not fleshed out.  The info dumps at the start of the chapter were interesting at first, but quickly became tedious as  they began to add very little to the overall story and became longer then the chapters themselves.Pro's:Characters are well thought outWriting generally speaking is decent, conversations are bearable.Story overall plot is interestingCon's (for me):Story had no real flow, it felt like 2 stories merged into 1 because the author didn't know how to develop a story past a short story.  The Space station story was very tedious to read, it wasn't interesting and it seem to encompass the majority of the story.  This is annoying because the main character isn't a part of it.Chapter length, horribly annoying to me is the short chapter lengths.  Sometimes after just a short conversation.  The info dumps at chapter start are horrible and are many times longer then the chapter.I understand sometimes authors mix differing viewpoints and stories to paint a whole picture but truth be told the 2 stories rarely connect to each other and feels like an afterthought at best.  The author is one of the worst I've seen for knowing when to switch, at one point having conversations split between 2 locations and stories.  like trying to listen to two separate conversations in two entirely separate locations at the same time (very short chapters for each side of conversation.) I found myself first skipping the info dumps, then more and more of the story until I was skipping most of the space station side because it was so badly written.This has a decent plot and could have been great but I can't help feel the author cheated the story by not developing it right or cutting corner in achieving word count.  With an editor and some rewrites this still might be good.  Overall though I would give this a pass.