Mobius by Vincent Vale.
I seem to be having tremendous trouble finding a decent book these days.
Two gods, or if that's more your thing; God and The Devil, are fighting about who gets to devour the universe and (a) man is caught in the middle, fighting for the survival of the entirety of the widespread human race.
Flat uninspiring and one-dimensional characters, but in this book it is just possible that it is on purpose; that the author is trying to make the best of not being able to write multidimensional characters to fill out his seventeen-dimensional universe (alas, it's not enough to make it a compelling read anyway). In a setting that seems never to know if it's going to be drama, (hard-ish) SciFi, magic-stick-waving fantasy, grand multicultural (multi galactic!) space-opera or mere new-age babbling.
While most of the male characters are flat, all the female characters are paper cut-out clichés and all the many, many 'aliens' never have any of their culture explained.
Furthermore things happen that the experienced reader will have great difficulty in accepting, most prominently; the Prime Minister of Earth join up with the leaders of the Martian and Mercurian civilizations and our protagonist, because she thinks he's cute(!!!), and run off to play away-team/marines elsewhere, while the Earth is being attacked by aliens -despite none of them having any experience in such endeavours!
Spoken language (and there's a lot of it as most of the novel is dialogue) is styled pompous in the ridiculous ... I found it hard not to lol at a lot of it -which just made it more difficult to stay focused on the story.
It's kinda funny -despite not trying to be- so I ...
Would not recommend.
I seem to be having tremendous trouble finding a decent book these days.
Two gods, or if that's more your thing; God and The Devil, are fighting about who gets to devour the universe and (a) man is caught in the middle, fighting for the survival of the entirety of the widespread human race.
Flat uninspiring and one-dimensional characters, but in this book it is just possible that it is on purpose; that the author is trying to make the best of not being able to write multidimensional characters to fill out his seventeen-dimensional universe (alas, it's not enough to make it a compelling read anyway). In a setting that seems never to know if it's going to be drama, (hard-ish) SciFi, magic-stick-waving fantasy, grand multicultural (multi galactic!) space-opera or mere new-age babbling.
While most of the male characters are flat, all the female characters are paper cut-out clichés and all the many, many 'aliens' never have any of their culture explained.
Furthermore things happen that the experienced reader will have great difficulty in accepting, most prominently; the Prime Minister of Earth join up with the leaders of the Martian and Mercurian civilizations and our protagonist, because she thinks he's cute(!!!), and run off to play away-team/marines elsewhere, while the Earth is being attacked by aliens -despite none of them having any experience in such endeavours!
Spoken language (and there's a lot of it as most of the novel is dialogue) is styled pompous in the ridiculous ... I found it hard not to lol at a lot of it -which just made it more difficult to stay focused on the story.
It's kinda funny -despite not trying to be- so I ...
Would not recommend.
