Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Judas Unchained
Book Review: Great writing and perception
Summary: 4 Stars
Not well known in the US this British author is writing the best epic SciFi on the market.I have been reading this genre for more than 50 years and he is a breath of fresh air and this series is not quite to the standards of the Reality Disfunction series but excellent none the less.Book Review: Great, Sweeping, Understandable Conclusion
Summary: 5 Stars
Have any of you Amazon readers out there ever read Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" series? If you have, then you must have been completely swept up in the universe he created. The characters, cultures and plot just sizzled from the very beginning of the novels right up until....Well, right up until the last half of the last book and then whole thing fell apart. Why did it fall apart? Well, the author had a great plot but I think he wrote himself into a corner and couldn't get out, so he came up with a simplistic, unrealistic and really stupid way to get out of it and it ruined the whole novel.
I was deeply afraid of the same thing happening in Pandora's Star and its sequel, Judas Unchained. Imagine my surprise when I read both these huge tomes, enjoyed every minute of them and was totally satisfied with the conclusion. As in the "Night's Dawn" series, Hamilton creates a wholly believable, wonderful interstellar culture and comes up with a very original alien species. (It's hard to find original aliens anymore, isn't it?) Also, it's an alien invasion story and I have always been a sucker for a good alien invasion story. I mean, in all of science fiction, what's better then a good old-fashioned alien invasion story? This one doesn't disappoint. Hamilton writes excellent action sequences and he keeps them coming, although in a book this size there's bound to be some downtime. His characters are interesting, fun and he is able to mix genres throughout his complex universe, whether writing a war story, a love story, a travelogue or a crime thriller. (This book contains all of these.)
I enjoyed both these books all the more so because they actually ended and left you wanting more. I look forward to Hamilton's next work. There are so few true Sci-Fi authors left nowadays that the good ones must be appreciated.
Book Review: Hamilton Hits the Spot
Summary: 4 Stars
For folks (like me) who enjoy the space opera genre, this book delivers just what we need. As always, Hamilton is awesome at world building. He paints a rich and intriguing picture of a future build around a few hypothetical technologies.
On the down side, the book is a little too detailed. For example, the "Barsoomians" could be safely eliminated and the resulting book would arguably be simpler and tighter.
But all in all, this is a very good book.
Book Review: Hang on to your seat...
Summary: 5 Stars
"Judas Unchained" was a masterful completion to the saga started in the first novel, "Pandora's Star." Peter Hamilton's ultra-futuristic extrapolation of human society kept me turning pages late into the night. Normally stories in far future settings depict weaponry and defenses in a godlike manner that is hard to rationalize. The battles in "Judas" were intensely exciting and dangerous with the characters, and all of humanity, on the edge of "real death."
Much better than the slow starting "Pandora's Star," which was good but not great. An outstanding finish.
Book Review: Hire an editor, please!
Summary: 3 Stars
Like most of Mr. Hamilton's work, Judas Unchained begins well although picking up the plot strands from the first volume in the series is a little tough. But this book is too long and needs editing to delete at least a third of the inflated text. Numerous subplots weaken the main narrative threads and destroy the momentum that sometimes begins to build when the main plot lines are being developed. The book becomes tedious after the first 400 pages. It was a relief to finally see its end.