A review by mazza57
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

2.0

I had this book recommended to me, to be fair it is not a book that I would normally pick but i was intrigued by the synopsis. I thought the first part of the book leading up to the "hard Rain" was well done and pretty well balanced. I struggled with the absolute mass of technological descriptions which i felt could have been cut by 90% and still have got the idea across. I was much more interested and invested in the character driven scenes. Part three was for me just a mess. The author should try putting a few chapters into this and perhaps something to draw the writing together. I found that after the first hundred or so pages of this 300 page chapter I could not have cared less about what was going on. The action was simply a drone in my head.

About 500 pages of this book could be jettisoned through one of the arklets and perhaps what remained would be a readable whole.