364 pages
English language
Published 2008 by Del Rey/Ballantine Books.
Failing to eliminate life on Earth after their first attack, the Firstborn send a Q-bomb weapon to finish the job. Two cryogenically frozen females and a group of scientists studying the Eye, an artifact of the Firstborn, may be the only hope of finding a way to counter the onslaught
Aw gees aw gees, how do I feel about this? It was good? But kinda not? If you think the bomb is the drama it's not very good, but as a melodrama...it's motivating? The end is good. The very end is very good.
Honestly picked the books at the wrong time. My news-feeds are full of people struggling to overcome great adversaries, the outcomes of which battles will have impact for the entire World, so turns out in fiction that's not what I want at the moment. There was nothing that I would love as an idea, no characters that I would find interesting. Felt like a really solid trilogy, but one that I picked up at the wrong time.
The finale cranks the techiness up another notch, and joins the different universes of the previous two books. The characters keep growing, the most interesting aspect to me, as does humanity. It's hard for me to embrace the level of optimism underlying the story, but I feel like just some exposure to that perspective is encouraging, and it is not untempered by fully plausible human folly.
I SO wanted to love this book. In fact, I did, right up to the ending! Still, it was a fun read and I was totally drawn into the conclusion. I just wasn't happy with the way it ended. If Sir Arthur C. Clarke had not passed away, we might have seen a sequel. But, alas, I don't think we will and I'm stuck using my imagination to see how the whole thing really ends. That may have been the point of the sorry ending, but where's the fun in that? LOL. ;)
I SO wanted to love this book. In fact, I did, right up to the ending! Still, it was a fun read and I was totally drawn into the conclusion. I just wasn't happy with the way it ended. If Sir Arthur C. Clarke had not passed away, we might have seen a sequel. But, alas, I don't think we will and I'm stuck using my imagination to see how the whole thing really ends. That may have been the point of the sorry ending, but where's the fun in that? LOL. ;)
