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“Although I really enjoyed the series I did find the end too short and almost hurried, I found myself thinking there were a lot of questions to be answered with very few pages left to go, and in the end they were glossed over it felt”
Ian Hay wrote this review Saturday, September 13 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“"Mind the gap..." (Okay, bad joke)
Comrade Charlie wrote this review Thursday, July 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I kept wanting to hear that Quaiche was a character from previous books, but the confirmation never came. Aside from that, I'm still thrilled with this book and the Inhibitor series in general and I hope there will be more of them. I'll certainly try to scrounge up the other books set in Revelation Space universe. I really am a sucker for novels set in the same universe with characters making appearances throughout a series.”
“This series didn't really grab me the way I hoped it would. The high-tech tech is fun and the ideas behind the plot are pretty exciting, but the characters all seem to be nearly-identical copies of the same "bad-ass" personality in different bodies. Everyone hides everything they know from everyone else - even when it might save the human race to reveal something - until information can be pulled out of them at the most dramatic possible time (i.e. at the last second). Every chapter ends with a dramatic cliffhanger statement. Every new introduced group of people is supposed to be more impressive and horrific and tougher than the last. In the end it was hard to keep track of who anyone was or what their specialties were or, really, why I cared.
Damian H wrote this review Tuesday, June 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Wow, that sounds horrible. I didn't hate it, just was disappointed.”
“One of my favorite series”
Originalxeo wrote this review Monday, December 3 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The whole series is space opera as it should be. Really good writing, a good description of the kind of societies that could appear with the evolution of technology, and the aliens are really alien. My biggest complaint is that in all books of the series everything is solved in a few pages and the ending is always somewhat lacking”
grumbler wrote this review Tuesday, August 21 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I loved this book. It was my first taste of Alastair Reynolds' work asides from his shorts in best of the year. I was very impressed; it took all the old spacer stories I used to love as child, and sent them spinning into the cyberpunkesqe, nightmareish future, and wow!”
PhilosophiX wrote this review Saturday, July 28 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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