joeyh reviewed Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #1)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space …
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2 stars
DNF at 1/3rd, during a very boring extended fight scene. Far too many underdeveloped characters and elongated plotting.
It gets a star for the planet voting to join the autocratic alien empire, and for some interesting and well done opening scenes. But it didn't seem worth skimming to the end. So many authors have done so much better than this.