Title: Surprising, intriguing and gripping
Review: This was the first Tepper book I had read, and I found it intensely gripping and interesting. Couldn't put it down till I finished it, and then I read it again, just to get a full perspective. I thought it was fabulous, with the convergence of the timelines feeding into the rich ideas and the slowly revealed secrets, even if I don't necessarily agree with her politics.However, I followed it up by reading Plague of Angels, and reading those two one after another made me feel that Tepper was only exploring the same ideas over and over, which made Plague of Angels much easier to predict.(Stop reading here if you don't want to know about the ideas in the book, especially if you haven't read this novel yet). I also found some of the political leanings expressed through the novels confusing. I noted that she seems to believe that much of technology is born out of humanity's bad side, but somehow seems to think it's a good idea for humans to toy with genetics of animals.
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