Starfarers

This book starts out incredibly slowly, so slowly that I never thought I'd get through it. I could barely get ten pages read a night before passing out from exhaustion and well, boredom. Very little happened and I couldn't see where it was going. Then Saturday came and I picked it up after a good night's sleep. What I thought was boring was well over a hundred pages of character introduction and world-building. It slowly began to pick up its pace and then finished with a hundred pages of breakneck action. It's the first of a four part series and this book serves as the introduction to the remaining three books. With a title like "Starfarers", you'd think this book was about space travel. Well, since it's an introduction, it's everything that leads up to the space travel part. You could easily see this book as the first season of a TV series with terrific cliffhanger for the last episode.

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