Bool #26: Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
I picked this one up several years ago but never quite got around to reading it - probably due to it being a trade paperback and thus too large to comfortably carry around and insufficiently self-lit to read in bed in this eReader age.
It's a completely different setting to all of his previous books that I've read, and is (as far as I know) a stand-alone instead of being part of a series. Which is fine, as it is properly self-contained and doesn't need a sequel.Beyond that, though, it was a bit run-of-the-mill, to be honest. An entertaining enough way to kill some time but it didn't grab me the way PFH's other works have in the past. Perhaps it's not sufficiently large scale for me, I don't know. The ending was a bit abrupt too, although nowhere near as bad as the deus ex machina at the end of the Neutronium Alchemist series.
Passable, but probably not in line for a re-read at any point.
It's a completely different setting to all of his previous books that I've read, and is (as far as I know) a stand-alone instead of being part of a series. Which is fine, as it is properly self-contained and doesn't need a sequel.Beyond that, though, it was a bit run-of-the-mill, to be honest. An entertaining enough way to kill some time but it didn't grab me the way PFH's other works have in the past. Perhaps it's not sufficiently large scale for me, I don't know. The ending was a bit abrupt too, although nowhere near as bad as the deus ex machina at the end of the Neutronium Alchemist series.
Passable, but probably not in line for a re-read at any point.