Title: captivating premise but ridiculous writing skills
Product review: I am confounded by those reviewers that give this 4 or 5 stars. The plot is a good idea, and does provide glimpses of the fascinating complexity of ant life. However, the author attributes to the ants some complex behaviours and dynamics that go beyond science into SF and pure fantasy.That is just the tip of the disappointment. The human characters are so wooden that if I had not known better, I would have believed taht the story was written by a 12-year old with a big vocabulary. Maybe something was lost in the translation (had to be the case, the writing is so bad in some parts) but unless the translator made up things, the story in the original French would also be flagrantly bad.Perhaps those that gave this book high marks are children, in which case I can understand. I think that it may be a good book for children, but certainly not for anyone above the age of 16.
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