Revelation Space

Rating:
Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I've read much more than my share of SF over the years, from short-shorts to multi-book sets, and this book was definitely one of the biggest disappointments.

Reynolds is a gifted writer, no argument there. But he's also far too in love with the cheap technique of conspicuously keeping secrets from the reader; there are too many places where one character tells another A Big Secret, and the author has to skip or gloss over the conversation to keep it from the reader. It's cheesy and more than a little annoying.

I also thought there were too many places where his prose needed much more attention from an editor, particularly in those areas where Reynolds lapsed into techno-purple prose.

I was really looking forward to this book and the sequels, but I'll skip the rest.