A review by octavia_cade
Belle Terre by Dean Wesley Smith, Diane Carey

3.0

I enjoyed this more than Wagon Train - it was pacier, zippier, and had an antagonist that was far less irritating. That antagonist happened to be an exploding moon, so this was more a of natural disaster story than anything but I like those so it worked for me. The tension level was pretty high throughout, so this was a single sitting reading; it really kept me hooked, with two exceptions. I did not care at all about those stupid children (natural selection at play I totally think), and the Blankness seemed like it belonged in a different story altogether. An interesting story, and one that I'd quite like to read, but it dragged away from the main storyline here in a way that did not best serve the Blankness itself, I think.