Sometimes my journey through a book takes long enough that I think I'll never finish it. It is punctuated with long breaks, sometimes so long that I give up and start over. For a sad few books, I start reading with high hopes and they never grab hold of me. My reflex is to not let the book beat me, but sometimes lack of interest in the story is enough to kill that reflex. Cyteen is one of these fallen. I feel guilty about it, and can't explain why it couldn't capture my interest. It's especially confusing to me when I loved Downbelow Station. I'll revisit this someday, maybe... and leave it unrated in the meantime.