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Rating: 8.5
Personal
Rating: 9
This
book was a very enjoyable read. The characters
were fun, and I never felt for a moment that it was dragging along. There was even some really nice humor interspersed
in here. All in all this was an almost
perfect book.
The
beginning kept me wanting to read. Our
hero meets a mysterious man. What are
they meeting for, why is this man from the past not here in the future. It was dark, mysterious, intriguing and the
why was the perfect why to keep me enticed to keep reading. Truth be told I still want to know what
happened to this other man. Why isn’t he
here? Did he die, did he betray Tiago somehow and that’s why he stole the ship
alone. What the hell happened? Consider me thrilled with that plot line.
I
like the idea of someone being lost in space on a massive ship with apparently
unlimited resources dealing with humanity.
There’s nothing but sims to talk to and even though they are almost
human, they just aren’t. He comes to
the realization that nothing quite beats actual contact with a real life
form. Human or alien for that
matter. Sadly he’s so lost in space that
the ship has no coordinates or any idea of their location. His quest to find civilizations somewhere in
the endless void of space is written well enough for you to feel his need to
reach other humans somewhere.
His
heavily hacked and redesigned, by his own hand, SIM Audra is very well written
as well. She’s the closet thing Tiago
has to a human and his only friend aboard the stolen vessel. In the back of my head I was secretly hoping
a romance would brew. Human and SIM. Is it possible? Is it legal?
Would it even matter seeing as he’s a fugitive?
In
any case they ultimately come upon a planet which shows no life yet manages to
be firing missiles somehow. Audra insist
Tiago is going about it all wrong but naturally the human is like ‘don’t be ridiculous”
and ignores her for a long time. It’s a
nice little bit of how the answers can be right in front of you sometimes.
The
ship itself also makes a good character.
It’s described through the eyes of Tiago and never in a way that makes
you go, “Ugh, more of this scifi stuff my normal brain can not comprehend.” It actually makes easy sense and isn’t
difficult to follow. The ship apparently
has flaws, or rules between sim and the main computer that hinder Tiago's
process. He thinks they are stupid. I think otherwise. But that’s a whole nother story.
The
plot points are executed rather well. The
writing style is also very good, and just the basic premise of what the
Masterless, have done and can do gives the story a nice twist as the end quickly
approaches at a pace that says, oh no the end is here but I cant stop
reading. So why an 8.5. The ending.
I was on the edge of my seat and poof the book was in the tie up
everything so we can end this book phase.
That phase that comes after the unofficial end of all books. I honestly thought maybe I missed it but when
I reread it all I could think was ‘it couldn’t be that easy” when faced with
eminent destruction it only takes a sentence for the war to be over. And if so I strongly doubt Tiago is the only
one smart enough to realize this. I just
couldn’t buy it. Was so let down I sorta
didn’t pay much attention to the real ending.
More
fight, more certain death, just more umph after all that build up would’ve been
way better. Kind of like Christopher Paolini's
big over drawn it was really that easy end fight for the inheritance
cycle. Just a let down.
But all
that aside there is no denying this is a good read. A well-written and wonderful piece of scifi
as it gives you all the cool gadgets without actually being about the
technology and more about the things humans need beyond that to feel
human. I’d recommend this book to anyone
who’s looking for a page-turner I know I should go sleep but I can’t stop
reading kind of novel. That’s how I felt
reading this. It was a well put together breath of scifi fresh air and I can’t
wait to read the second installment.
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