ivorhartmann's reviews
162 reviews

I like Neal Asher's books and this one had some great ideas, however the African stereotyping just left me cold and detracted from the overall book greatly.

SK very rarely disappoints, and this book was no exception (SK has always been about very deep characters and characterisations in unusual situations), and he stands as one of the few authors that inspired me to be a writer.

Thoroughly enjoyed AR's first book (been wanting to read it for awhile now, have read quite a few of his other books in the meantime), fantastic universe and character creation, solidly backed by an intimate knowledge of astrophysics very well utilised without becoming dry.

I have been an avid reader of IB since I first read 'The Crow Road' and went on to read everything of his I could find, and was further impressed by both his mainstream and sci-fi works. It has always been a complete mystery to me why none of his books have ever won an award, he certainly deserves many in my opine, including this one. Transition is probably the best multiverse theory based book I have read to date, and fantastically combines the gritty realism of character and characterisations in his mainstream fiction with the far-reaching and richly detailed imaginarium of his sci-fi.

Nowhere on this book's cover did it state it was heavily Christian orientated or I wouldn't have bothered even trying to read it. Mores the pity that it has this heavy angle because without it, it actually would have been a pretty cool book. There were some great ideas, plots, characters, and descriptions, but I groaned every time I was preached at, and in the end gave up trying to read the whole thing because of it. It was in fact decidedly sneaky on the part of the cover, and as it slowly became more intense as the book went on I felt like I had been ambushed by a seemingly cool group of people who turned out to be a prayer circle trying to indoctrinate me. Go on Karen write a book without the preaching, and I'm sure it will be great.

My first Miéville, and definitely not my last. It would have been nice to read this particular series from the beginning, but alas that was not possible for me, nevertheless I highly enjoyed it (was even blown away in parts). I will now set about reading everything he's published (I have The City and The City up next).