Book review: The Temporal Void
by: Peter Hamilton
I plowed throught this book…I think I made it through in 3 days. Every chapter was good. Seriously, I don’t remember any throwaways – everything was valuable to the reader. It was one of the most engaging books I’ve read in a long time; quality quality.
What to focus on…well…the book-within-a-book angle is still moving along at a really interesting pace – I love the interplay of foreshadowing between the outside world and the story/void/inner world. He does some really neat things there. It’s still just as engaging as the main story – the whole two books at once thing is still strange.
The characters are pretty strong, the science is in full fiction form, the space is operatic…big big things are afoot. I cannot wait until the final volume – it looks like we’ll see yet another angle on the entirety of cosmology (up to and past ending of existence) and I find that fascinating, especially given how much I loved the Reality Dysfunction series..whatever their proper name is.
If you’re into space opera/hard sci-fi – I highly recommend this series. The first book may be a little slow for your tastes but this one picks it up.
FOUR AND A HALF STARS
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