Childhood's End

The book is divided in 3 parts I think. The first one showed some promise, I could take the slow build up of the events into the revelation of what does the Overlords really look like and what are their motives. The story was interesting by itself, with a somewhat well defined main character.

Learning about the special powers this alien race, wondering why they wanted peace on Earth and how people resented being forced into having peace was fun.

The second part started off really well. It takes place many years latter, and there are a new cast of characters. There is no main character but that still could be have been fine. The Overlords have revealed themselves and it was time they make their plan known.

It seemed to start building up a dystopian future where there is no war, crime, diseases, anger, envy or anything bad, but mankind have lost its artistic creativity and the desire to explore space or to advance science in any way.

The Overlords have provided them with anything they needed. Any conflicts people had could be resolved by this special television that could see into any time and place in human history. So all of the religions were extinguished when they could actually see the truth of how they got started. Murderers were discouraged to commit crimes because they would certainly be caught.

But this was described in one page and nothing else happened. Although this is a small book, there is too little of a plot. It is mostly filled with mundane events, like talking trivialities at a party.

I stopped listening by the start of part 3, when things should be getting more interesting, but they just didn't.