Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Everything about this book is awful. We can start with the print edition I bought. A typical mass market sci-fi paperback has 400-500 words per page. This is necessary if you're going to "take it seriously." This one barely makes the 200 mark. That tells you the publishers already know something's missing here, but they're still trying to pass it off as solid sci-fi. Now, if we get past this, we come to the writing itself: it's drivel. Characterization is exceptionally poor, world-building is completely absent, there isn't a single interesting turn of phrase in the whole thing and the author's grasp of style is less than rudimentary. And if you can make it to the end, which is a black hole of boredom, it descends into confusion and plain stupidity with a speed I find baffling. I don't normally leave bad reviews. But there's a lot of good reviews here and frankly, I can't understand why, other than poor, and I mean, like, really poor judgment on the reader's part. That's unfortunate - because there is truly great writing out there. We don't have to settle for this drivel. Shame on the publisher, who not only brings this to market, but pushes it, while the sheep all follow along.