Lisa R. (lisareinke) reviewed on 4/6/2007 + 123 more book reviews

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I can't read Peter Hamilton's book's everyday, but I really enjoy them once every few years. He has a literary style that is unique, telling grand stories with dozens of characters. The characters serve the plot and are our eyes, so that the reader gets to know the whole tale. This can be frustrating, I'm sure, for those who want to get to know and spend time with a character. Often, characters in one chapter are not revisited for dozens of chapters. Meanwhile, the story is opening like a flower.

What Peter Hamilton is great at, is painting a whole world and its crisis for you. Somewhere along the way, you start feeling right at home in his universe.

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