A review by j00j
Catch the Lightning by Catherine Asaro

2.0

Better than the first book in this series, though it still suffers from occasional bouts of tl;dr explanation. It takes a real gift to make that kind of detail in hard SF interesting to me-- the only author who's managed to do it is [author: Scott Westerfeld] in the Risen Empire books. Asaro's science is intriguing, but her explanations feel a bit clunky to me. Your mileage may vary, of course. In any case, the characterization in this book seemed improved, and the Mayan cultural elements she brought in were interesting, although unfortunately I'm not in a position to assess how well she did her homework.