A review by flexluthor
Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

adventurous dark hopeful tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

 I read the first book in this series earlier this year and was pretty unimpressed. It's a truly unending cast of characters, and many of them follow superfluous and distracting paths. There's this bizarre tonal whiplash caused by the author's insistence on including immortality in his future human society. When characters can just body hop to a new clone when they die it's extremely hard to give any section of the book much urgency. This second book is far more fast-moving than the first, which is absolutely a good thing. In the first 1000 page book there were probably 500 wasted pages, in this second one there are maybe 200 wasted. Not a great series to spend 2000 pages with, but it shines through in various moments of tension.