Hidden Empire

Overall, pretty good. I think I'll read the second one to see what happens because the series shows promise.

This specific book suffers a little from a large amount of setup and character introduction up front, but starts finally moving along decently in the back half.

One thing I don't particularly love is how every essentially every chapter switches viewpoints - it's not that it's difficult to keep up, but something interesting happens, and I need to wait 6 chapters to get back to it. I hope he tones that part down later on, it just feels gimmicky. Not every viewpoint needs equal and equally spaced representation!

Late review, don't quite remember. The usual problem I have with sci-fi. Too much time spent developing the world, no presentable plot or engaging characters, made up words, etc.

Read 55:34 / 20:04 5%

Other than the last 20-30 pages of the book being a glossary/preview/etc, so I thought there was more to read than there was, it was good. Will eventually pick up the rest of the series to find out what is going on.