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Review title: I wanted to like it
Product review: I have never liked the Hutch series as much as the Chase Kolpath books (Talent for War, Polaris, Seeker), so I'm biased, but I just don't like this version of the universe...it's more of what we have, only with aliens. It doesn't seem as interesting, or possibly it's just that there are no real mysteries to solve as in the Chase books. The difficulties just seem like normal problems that some people want to solve and some don't. Added to which, I can't like MacAllister. And in this book, Hutch is no longer interesting. Mostly, I think it's that the characters are no longer telling the story. It's more like McDevitt is preaching his version of "what's wrong with the world" via flat characters. Boring, and almost insulting. I'd read Chindi again, but not this one.
