Science Fiction
What Goodreads Says:
"Jason M.
Hough’s pulse-pounding debut combines the drama, swagger, and vivid characters
of Joss Whedon’s Firefly with the talent of sci-fi author John Scalzi.
In the
mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth.
The world has succumbed to an alien plague, with most of the population
transformed into mindless, savage creatures. The planet’s refugees flock to
Darwin, where a space elevator—created by the architects of this apocalypse,
the Builders—emits a plague-suppressing aura.
Skyler Luiken has a rare immunity
to the plague. Backed by an international crew of fellow “immunes,” he leads
missions into the dangerous wasteland beyond the aura’s edge to find the
resources Darwin needs to stave off collapse. But when the Elevator starts to
malfunction, Skyler is tapped—along with the brilliant scientist, Dr. Tania
Sharma—to solve the mystery of the failing alien technology and save the ragged
remnants of humanity."
My Goodreads rating on The Darwin
Elevator would be 5 stars for the first half and 3 stars for the second. Since I can’t do that the book will get
4 stars.
The Darwin Elevator captured and
held my attention for the first half of the book. The plot was very exciting and the characters were well
developed. There was great world
building, danger and tension. So
what happened after the first half to change my rating? To me it looked like the author had
those well developed characters acting out of character to keep the plot moving
in the direction he wanted. I
found that their action were a distraction that took my attention away from the
plot. On a personal level
some of the characters I really liked were killed off. And then the book ended! It did not finish, it ended!
Did all of that make this a bad
book? No! Even though in the second half I found
the character’s actions distracting I still finished in record time. This is book one in a three book series
so a cliffhanger ending is not unusual.
It does make me want to read book two as soon as possible.
Even though I found some things
that I thought took away from the story I still recommend the book. This is a
great new series for Science Fiction fans.
Del Rey will release The DarwinElevator by Jason M. Hough on July 30, 2013. There is still time to pre-order.
I received an eARC of The Darwin
Elevator from Netgalley.
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