Completed: February 18, 2024
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: The Author
Review:
This is the first book by a first-time author and it is self-published. The book has a lot of flaws, from editing to a distinct lack of segues. The author made the unfortunate assumption that a Palm Pilot would live well beyond its actual lifetime (I thought it would also). Maybe, in the parallel world (?) created they did. I have to admit that I found the book stuttering, but there were several ideas that I really liked. The characters were very flat and had no development. Van Blake's vision is grand and there is a tendency to describe what happened as opposed to describing it as it happens (I'm not sure how to put this into better words as I am not an author, but there were numerous times when an event was completed in a sentence without any sense of how it happened). The explanation of light speed travel is great, but hyperdrive is left unexplained and simply assumed. Then there are rips in reality that allow even faster travel--also unexplained. Things tend to happen on impossible time scales and space ships stop at the edge of gravity wells. All of these flaws are jarring and it is why it took me a long time to finish (I decided to just power through and that worked much better than trying to make sense of things that were throwing me off). So, I can recommend this book for the ideas which are interesting.
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