Negative Positive
Title: Fosters roller coaster
Review: Alan Dean Foster can be an exasperating writer. Sometimes his books are among the best but sometimes he just bores me. This is not one of his better efforts.One would be better served by reading any Flinx novel or alomost any fantasy by him. I always thought his best was "Into the Dark" But that's just me. . .you have to find your own.That said this is an exploration of the "alien capture turns person into a specimen" and it evolves from that premise. With Alan Dean Foster's usual twists on that: a talking rational dog. Much more rational, and funny than the protagonist who comes off kind of an idiot sometimes actually. Etc. It all seemed very familiar to me somehow. I slogged to a halt about three quarters through so at least I won't give away the ending. I never got there. I'm sure there will be something from him that fires up in the future. This ain't it.
Is the review positive or negative? 