Good lord Seveneves.  Is this a trilogy, made up of a pretty good apocalyptic thriller (Pt 1), an action-packed space survival adventure (pt 2) and a booooooooring first contact alien story (pt 3); or one gigantic hot mess of a poorly edited novel that destroys all of the pacing and goodwill it had built up with a final third that is an endless info-dump bogging down what amounts to a fairly satisfying ending?

There are so many good ideas in this book, and so many thrilling scenes, that to simply hate on it would be an injustice, but my goodness the final third is so very very bad that it took all of the wind out of my sails.

It’s hard to believe that a good editor wouldn’t notice how problematic the pacing of the final third was, but gone was any character development; gone was the tension of the human race on the brink of extinction,  it’s only hope a few survivors with some very real reasons to distrust each other enough to just let it go; replaced instead with endless digressions into technologies best left for another novel altogether.

Q: 3

E: 3

I: 2

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