This book is a compendium of three books that I got through the Science Fiction Book Club. The story is about Mark Walker who gets abducted from Earth by aliens who want to sell him as a novelty item to other aliens in the Galactic Civilization.I really enjoyed the first book of the trilogy with its fish out of water angle and building up the new world the main character found himself in. The second book however suffered greatly from a poor and unbelievable plot arc that left me completely cold. I actually cringed at the childlike storytelling and unbelievable crisis resolution.
The first half of the third book was much better, getting back to world building and exploration of interesting concepts. The second half seemed to suffer from writer fatigue though, almost as if the author was ready for the story to be over and the threads were wrapped up one after another in short order with no real difficulties. The final crisis again was quite idiotic and left me cold and dissatisfied with the whole arc.
Overall, I would give this book a pass to any interested readers of good sci-fi.
1 comment:
you persevered, yeah you! ...if it were me I would've given up as soon as it lost my interest. Nah, who am I trying to kid...if it were me, I never would've picked it up in the first place!!!
...guess this is one to take to the used book store then...crappy books have no place on our bookshelves!
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