- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Ace Books (Dec 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0441011268
- ISBN-13: 978-0441011261
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,006,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vast Sense of Wonder, 12 Jan 2004
By Michael Hoffman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Heirs of Earth (Paperback)
With volume 3 of the series arriving just in time, after I got the first two for Xmas, I was able to read the trilogy back to back. Therefore my review reflects the entire saga.And a saga it was. The authors have managed to instill in me a sense of wonder not felt since I read Startide Rising by David Brin.
Alien lifeforms are truly alien, incomprehensible to humans. If the protagonists themselves can be called human. Broken engrams, nanotech-modified humans, which then get re-designed by a variety of aliens themselves. It raises the question, just what defines "human".
The authors do provide the answer: the sense of racial self, a refusal to NOT be something special in an uncaring cosmos, never accepting defeat - and in the end "I think, therefore I am ... HUMAN".
As another reviewer has commented on one of the previous books, the characters tend not to be very likeable. But, I found that it is possible to identify with them as their reactions to events and their environments and to each other are believable, even understandable as being the result of extreme stress.
The action in the books moves along at a brisk pace, with frequent surprising turns of events. The climax of the saga is a breathtaking ride...
... which then drops off to a quite unsatisfying denouement. I must agree with the previous reviewer who beat me to being the first one to write a review for this book: somehow the authors managed to paint themselves into a corner and they couldn't write themselves out of it. I suppose it's better than the many deus-ex-machina endings found only too often, but not by much.
In the end I couldn't help but think "oh, I guess there will be a book 4 then, eh?" Or I wondered if the authors lost interest in wrapping up things, after the cosmic rollercoaster ride they had taken the readers along before.
My scores would be 4 for Echoes, 5 for Orphans and 3 for Heirs, with an average of 4 stars. 3 stars for Heirs may be a bit harsh, but the ending takes away from an otherwise 5 star story.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Unsatisifying Ending, 10 Jan 2004
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Heirs of Earth (Paperback)
When an author uses phrases like "unspeakably evil" or "more then you can imagine" or "beyond your comprehension", they are failing to express any content. That is the problem with this book, the last of the series. After reading the book, you are left with an ending that concludes nothing. The characters are interesting, the plot complex, and the action well written. All of this makes it terribly disappointing the the conclusion never really occurs. The author's painted themselves into a corner that they couldn't think themselves out of and it shows.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing rush job, 6 Feb 2004
By kallan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Heirs of Earth (Paperback)
I WANTED TO KNOW THE ANSWERS!And I didn't get them. Nothing was explained or resolved satisfactorily, and I had to wade through very ordinary prose full of proofing errors to reach that conclusion. Characters behaved differently, issues previously raised weren't explored, and things were stated as fact that hadn't featured in the previous books. Infuriating concepts were dumped in at the last gasp in a futile effort to make sense of what had come before.
Please, please, please, Messers Williams and Dix, take the TIME to produce real quality with your next effort; quality like the Evergence trilogy.
What a let down!
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