Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton

  • Started on: 2018-05-20
  • Finished on: 2018-06-02
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

After another three book break since The Neutronium Alchemist I picked up the last part in The Night’s Dawn Trilogy, eager to see how the story concludes.

This is the book that concludes it all. How does humanity overcome the possession crisis? How does humanity live with the knowledge that death isn’t the end? How is Quinn Dexter beaten? What have the Tyrathca discovered on their exodus, and can it help humanity? And most importantly, can Hamilton bring this all to a satisfying conclusion?

In the previous two books, Hamilton started many storylines, with the possessed and the solution to that issue being the biggest. In this book he brings them all to a conclusion. In the case of the battles between non-possessed and possessed each battle plays out differently, showing that the one easy solution isn’t that easy, and that not every possessed is a Quinn Dexter, Kiera or Al Capone. Some are Fletcher Christian. We also learn more about the xenoc worlds of the Kiint and Tyrathca, and how other races have dealt with this issue. Up until the last two chapters, there still wasn’t a resolution in sight. The Naked God of the title is kind of a deus ex machina, something so new and different that solves every single issue (and then some) in the universe. It was clever, but I think I would have liked Hamilton to spend half the book on the resolution and make it more real, instead of fixing it all in the last 100 pages. Still, a satisfying conclusion of 4 out of 5 stars.

  • Started on: 2018-05-20
  • Finished on: 2018-06-02
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ****-
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction

After another three book break since The Neutronium Alchemist I picked up the last part in The Night’s Dawn Trilogy, eager to see how the story concludes.

This is the book that concludes it all. How does humanity overcome the possession crisis? How does humanity live with the knowledge that death isn’t the end? How is Quinn Dexter beaten? What have the Tyrathca discovered on their exodus, and can it help humanity? And most importantly, can Hamilton bring this all to a satisfying conclusion?

In the previous two books, Hamilton started many storylines, with the possessed and the solution to that issue being the biggest. In this book he brings them all to a conclusion. In the case of the battles between non-possessed and possessed each battle plays out differently, showing that the one easy solution isn’t that easy, and that not every possessed is a Quinn Dexter, Kiera or Al Capone. Some are Fletcher Christian. We also learn more about the xenoc worlds of the Kiint and Tyrathca, and how other races have dealt with this issue. Up until the last two chapters, there still wasn’t a resolution in sight. The Naked God of the title is kind of a deus ex machina, something so new and different that solves every single issue (and then some) in the universe. It was clever, but I think I would have liked Hamilton to spend half the book on the resolution and make it more real, instead of fixing it all in the last 100 pages. Still, a satisfying conclusion of 4 out of 5 stars.