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Old 04-20-2016, 01:15 PM   #9
Dazrin
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
This book was long and seemed long.
I completely agree with that. I kept finding excuses to not read which is not a good sign.

I also agree that Frank's character was the most interesting, although I don't think he really redeemed himself. I keep wondering how things would have turned out if he hadn't been actively trying to gain influence and cause problems for John. Or even if he hadn't gone off the deep end after John's murder and abandoned everything for so long. He really left a hole that the transnats were more than willing to fill.

Of the other characters, Nadia was my favorite POV character despite being fairly one dimensional. All of the others just irritated me. Maya, Ann, Sax, Phyllis, etc. Although Ann's POV did lessen my dislike for her. The other POV characters all reinforced it.

I thought the last 1/3 was very good and wished we would have gotten there sooner. The ending wasn't satisfying at all as the end to a complete story, this was obviously always intended to be the first in a series.

The obvious social commentary that corporations are becoming too powerful and politicians are dirty feels very at home right now and in this US election cycle especially.

In the end, the last 1/3 of the book convinced me to read the next book not because of any of the characters, I really don't care about any of them, but because I want to see how the Martian society as a whole develops and gets some freedom from UNOMA/transnat control.
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I am assuming that he will somehow get the Martians under their own rule and am interested in seeing how he achieves that. I suspect that it will be a compromise between the Martians and the corporations - the Martians will provide resources to the transnats/Earth in return for being left alone to do their own thing.
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