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A review by atris_lauraborealis
Corsair by James L. Cambias
3.0
I have to give this book a big round of...meh.
It was surprisingly disappointing to finish the book, not because it was over, but because it could have been so much better. I found myself wanting a lot more out of this story. The language and voice of the story was very spare, I wasn't given an enormous amount of details except when it came to spaceship tech, mining vehicles or flight techniques, all of which were technical and dry. I wanted to know what people were feeling, what the places looked like. The ideas were all there bit they weren't believable because I didn't feel them. I didn't believe the love story that drove the final act because I was informed of it, not shown it. It made the whole novel seem very superficial, like getting a generic news report instead of being told a story.
It was surprisingly disappointing to finish the book, not because it was over, but because it could have been so much better. I found myself wanting a lot more out of this story. The language and voice of the story was very spare, I wasn't given an enormous amount of details except when it came to spaceship tech, mining vehicles or flight techniques, all of which were technical and dry. I wanted to know what people were feeling, what the places looked like. The ideas were all there bit they weren't believable because I didn't feel them. I didn't believe the love story that drove the final act because I was informed of it, not shown it. It made the whole novel seem very superficial, like getting a generic news report instead of being told a story.