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Title: Cool characters, but dry drab plot
Review: Sheffield's imagination is WAY out on the fringe. The book was definitely unpredictable, but not in an exciting way. I kept reading because I didn't KNOW what was going to happen NOT because I wanted to, but I just had to get it over with.I was very into the plot the first half of the book, because it seemed to have a hard military/sci-fi edge to it. But then the whole nimrod hunt turned into this frilly, spiritual vulcan interspecies mind-meld issue and the characters turned into 2-dimensional victims. Sheffield completely messed up and lost any concept of conflict and resolution and played too much with the intangible themes and too little on making a real gripping story.
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