Title: unmitigated tripe
Product review: Simon R. Green takes all the pieces of any space opera you have ever read, stirs in more cliches than you would have thought possible, bakes, and writes it all down badly. Whenever he doesn't know what to do next, he adds more aliens, each one alledgedly new and different and yet described so badly that they blend into one another. Descriptions of people are not only reused between books but sometimes reused word for word in the same book! Finally, the characterizations are flat and virtually identical - if it weren't clearly indicated, you'd never know who is talking.This is pretty much science fiction at its worst. Space opera can be good, even great, but this isn't it.
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