I don't read a huge amount of sci-fi but really enjoyed this one! An odyssey into far flung parts of space. Good characters, excellent writing and interesting mysteries. And I REALLY wasn't expecting the elephants... 🐘🪐📚💙
Current read: The Fireman. Joe Hill is right up there with his Dad Stephen King in showing the horror of well meaning but deluded people trying to do what they think is the right thing... 📚🪐💙
It seems ridiculous to talk about a book so well loved & widely read as this one. But yes, now I get it. It was daunting to start as it's SO big and it has so many characters at the start. Many characters disappeared shockingly quickly though...
3/ When I got to the part where the viewpoint switched from Boulder to Vegas, I had a real feeling of dread that I was going to read about the bad guys now - how does he manage to provoke that kind of feeling?