This was a fast-paced novella that maybe was a bit too ambitious for the time it took to tell the story.
The science fiction backstory seemed pretty interesting to me, but a lot of the background and history is sort of skipped over to concentrate on the scary events happening at the moment.
Because of this the whole story felt rushed to me, and the characters often didn’t have much of a connection with each other. Shouldn’t there be a lot more history between them after living together on a spaceship for most of their lives?
Occasionally the characters made odd choices, and it felt like these choices were to serve the plot rather than them doing what normal logical people would do.
I think this would have been much better as a full-length novel, but for whatever reason it has been sanded down to a quick story that didn’t really do much for me. It was good for what it was, though: a quick sci-fi read.
Next I am reading The Art Thief by Michael Finkel.
