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It’s a great series!
I've been following along reading the series from the start, and just finished this one. It looks like everyone loved all the earlier ones. I like them enough to keep reading, but so many things seem just wrong to me. For example, everyone wants to badly to find other intelligent life in the universe, and they find some in every book, and it looks kind of like us and has cultures kind of like us, or it's probably extinct and so doesn't count. And everyone is disappointed and still wants to find intelligent life, or decides we never will, so why bother trying.
And in every book, they decide to do some really risky stuff and say, what could go wrong? And someone dies. Hutch is usually there and then in the next book she does it again.
Not to criticize too much, but it puzzles me that the books get awards and nobody seems to notice this stuff.
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Rachel wrote: "And in every book, they decide to do some really risky stuff and say, what could go wrong? And someone dies. Hutch is usually there and then in the next book she does it again."This was my big problem with Deepsix. It didn't bother me so much in others.
I am glad Hutch took a back seat in Odyssey. I find Mac to be a far more interesting and fun character.
I really enjoyed this series, but this was a bit of a let down. Perhaps due to the philosophical meanderings (are aliens really just like humans?) and lack of the seat of the pants action of the previous novels.
This one has kind of a...leisurely pace doesn't it? I'm about halfway through and they are only thinking about visiting the core now. Yeah, the intelligent races thing is funny. We have the Nok, the Goompahs, possibly the moonriders, for the ones that aren't extinct. I guess they haven't found any that they can make a proper connection with.
I'm enjoying this one well enough but I don't think it is going to be one of my favorites.
It is clarified later in the book that they are disappointed to have not met any races with what they would consider modern technology.The development with the A.I. is interesting; I wonder if that will go anywhere.
Not sure I feel about the alien first contact (first contact for them)... I think the translation happened too easily but then I'm not a linguist.
Finished it... eh. The second stop on their journey was another "unqualified people make a bad decision and end up paying for it." Just like in DeepSix.
The last part is what saves it IMO. We finally find out the truth about the omega clouds. Don't worry, I'm not saying anything, but it is fantastic and satisfying.
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