April Books 10) Seasons of Plenty, by Colin Greenland

[nwhyte]

I read the first in this series, the multiply award-winning Take Back Plenty four years ago, and am now at last catching up with the other two. Seasons of Plenty has the massive spaceship Plenty, commandeered by Tabitha Jute at the end of the previous book, setting off for (with any luck) Proxima Centauri, loaded with many inhabitants of different

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[bellinghman]

Having enjoyed the first, I found this one so tedious I have never actually read anything else by Greenland.

[drasecretcampus]

The classic trilogy structure is:

• fellowship comes together for a quest but is betrayed by one of their number and the group is scattered
  
• lots of people run all over the place, not really achieving anything, and putting off the climax
  
• the world is saved but not for those who saved it
  

I can't recall how much that's a spoiler for the third volume... I do remember thinking that just because readers want more, doesn't mean getting more will be a good thing.