A review by danlewisfw
Aeon Rising by Matthew Mather
3.0
This one is more of a three and a half, its pretty decent just not quite four stars worthy. This book has me wanting to lower the star rating of the last book I read because it is not as good as this was. But other books I have given four stars to were better. So I am going to declare it 3 1/2 stars. I wish we could do that here!
This is a disaster/alien invasion book and while the story was compelling and the end was pretty good the knowledge of what is going on is all over the place. You get info from one group of characters saying its one thing and info from another group saying its another, one group will tell someone its something then immediately in private declare that its not that but something else all together.
There is some mystery surrounding an AI and at least by the end of the book it seems to be friendly but there are people who think it may be dangerous. This definitely feels like the first section of a longer book that they have split into three sections. This was the first and then it sort of just ends. It does not resolve much of anything and I hate that. I do accept that its the reality of publishing right not. Do not sell a thousand page self contained novel, split it into three 350 page books so we get to charge the customer three times. Just sell it for more and give me the whole story!
This is a disaster/alien invasion book and while the story was compelling and the end was pretty good the knowledge of what is going on is all over the place. You get info from one group of characters saying its one thing and info from another group saying its another, one group will tell someone its something then immediately in private declare that its not that but something else all together.
There is some mystery surrounding an AI and at least by the end of the book it seems to be friendly but there are people who think it may be dangerous. This definitely feels like the first section of a longer book that they have split into three sections. This was the first and then it sort of just ends. It does not resolve much of anything and I hate that. I do accept that its the reality of publishing right not. Do not sell a thousand page self contained novel, split it into three 350 page books so we get to charge the customer three times. Just sell it for more and give me the whole story!