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timinbc's review
3.0
I give the third star only for scope. I hope this was meant as a YA. That would excuse a few things.
One giveaway would be 2 teenage girls running a ship and no one thinks they might be THOSE teenage girls; another might be Marty Stu Incer, who might be 20 and is a squadron leader. At least with Ender Wiggin we got a back story.
So, we continue with the wildly inconsistent science. We don't have computers, navigation seems to be based on telescopes, but we can put on new limbs in any handy clinic. We have artillery battles at distances in the thousands of miles (OK, it's easier with no air and no gravity but still ..)
"lungstuff" - really?
Three "oh, FFS" items:
(1) The glow was obviously going to
(2) Has any death in all of fiction been more telegraphed than Prozor's?
(3) at the Big Dumb Object near the end, of COURSE the key discovery is JUST beyond the maximum rope length. It's never in the first room, and never in the one they didn't find.
I say, chaps, am I alone in wondering how the young ladies came to converse as if they were at Miss Havisham's Finishing School for Ladies? Except that both often say "ain't". Or how some of the crew seem to have gone to the Gabby Hayes School of Overdone Character Acting, arr, we likes that, doesn't we matey?
All too often this got speechy, or took 1000 words when 200 would have done, and I admit I skimmed a lot.
Saldy, Reynolds hasn't thrilled me since the disaster that was Absolution Gap [my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/104068924?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1]. I really didn't care for the Poseidon series either. We all change, and I guess AR and I have grown apart.
One giveaway would be 2 teenage girls running a ship and no one thinks they might be THOSE teenage girls; another might be Marty Stu Incer, who might be 20 and is a squadron leader. At least with Ender Wiggin we got a back story.
So, we continue with the wildly inconsistent science. We don't have computers, navigation seems to be based on telescopes, but we can put on new limbs in any handy clinic. We have artillery battles at distances in the thousands of miles (OK, it's easier with no air and no gravity but still ..)
"lungstuff" - really?
Three "oh, FFS" items:
(1) The glow was obviously going to
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kill her, except we knew it wouldn't, and she forced a crisis, and .... not much happened.(2) Has any death in all of fiction been more telegraphed than Prozor's?
(3) at the Big Dumb Object near the end, of COURSE the key discovery is JUST beyond the maximum rope length. It's never in the first room, and never in the one they didn't find.
I say, chaps, am I alone in wondering how the young ladies came to converse as if they were at Miss Havisham's Finishing School for Ladies? Except that both often say "ain't". Or how some of the crew seem to have gone to the Gabby Hayes School of Overdone Character Acting, arr, we likes that, doesn't we matey?
All too often this got speechy, or took 1000 words when 200 would have done, and I admit I skimmed a lot.
Saldy, Reynolds hasn't thrilled me since the disaster that was Absolution Gap [my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/104068924?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1]. I really didn't care for the Poseidon series either. We all change, and I guess AR and I have grown apart.
longhorn396's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
sinnylong's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
roytoo's review
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Alistair Reynolds delivers a sweeping continuation of the Ness sisters' story in Bone Silence. Old foes reappear, new allies are made and lots of stunning revelations.
In the acknowledgements Alistair writes that he is setting the Ness sisters aside "for a while". I look forward to reading more about them and/or the Congregation.
In the acknowledgements Alistair writes that he is setting the Ness sisters aside "for a while". I look forward to reading more about them and/or the Congregation.
shalmeneser's review
3.0
An underwhelming end to a phenomenal series. Although many of the plot points get resolved, it just... doesn't quite hit. Still a great read.
hagbard_celine's review
4.0
Fun! I kept frustrating myself by reading earlier installments of this series before the final volume was released. Now, boy oh boy, what a weird space pirate quest thing. I liked this very much.
gilmoremk's review against another edition
2.0
A very different book from the first two in the series, and not in a good way. We went from a pretty self-contained space pirates story to one with vast conspiracies and world-ending implications and all that jazz. Those things are all fine, but it felt jarring to get all of it in the final book when it was barely hinted at in the first two. And then cramming it all into this final book meant that everything was rushed through, and we didn't get the kind of deep background or detail that I want from space opera.
walden2ite's review
2.0
This was a very frustrating finale to the trilogy. Parts of it were good, a few parts were very good, but much was disappointing. There were too many coincidences and stupid choices for the book to be very enjoyable.