Peter F. Hamilton: Great North Road
Hmm, this wasn’t as good as the author’s previous works. Peter F. Hamilton likes to write hefty space operas, and I really liked his previous works for their complexity. But Great North Rad was way too long and didn’t have enough complexity for such a long book. The ending and the main revelations were guessable from the start and it took way too long to get there.
But the weakest element for me were the characters. The main character Angela Tramelo was reasonably well-defined, but the rest of the characters seemed like chess pieces: they felt as if they were there just to move the story along.
And then there was an odd thing that I haven’t noticed in his works before: all good characters were super-rich. It seemed as if Hamilton views money as some kind of “virtue”. This was not a little odd.