The Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
A bold, galaxy sweeping story where you’re even willing to overlook how central humanity can be to Solving Everything(tm) – if only it wasn’t underwhelmed by poor writing and execution. To be fair, I have the same opinion of other popular space operatic series, bringing to question my tastes and opinions, but between the constant info dump and poor writing technique, I was left bored and unintrigued for most of the book.
Its not often that I’ll leave a poor review. My usual M.O. is to just drop the book and stop mentioning that I ever looked at it, but I felt compelled to keep reading Seeds, hoping that it would improve and remaining disappointed the entire time. I’d seen the book floating around for the last few years, so when it finally became available to U.S. readers (originally Australian, so its not a translation problem, I don’t think), I snatched it up. I also couldn’t stand the first book of The Lost Fleet, which I know a lot of people just love. No accounting for my sense of taste, I guess.
So if your tastes and mine have run amok together in time, I’d recommend saving your money on this one.
