Pandora's Star

My problem with this massive half-an-epic was two-fold. First, with the exception of Paula Mayo and Ozzie, I found none of the characters personally interesting. To compound that, there was no character growth. Mayo learned things that she had not know before, but who she was stayed the same throughout. (To be fair, that would be one of her character traits, but still...)

The other main problem was that I just did not care about most of what happened. Justine spent hours (of reading time) flying about in a glider, with all sorts of technical details, none of which was worth a single moment of reading time. It didn't illuminate her character for me. It didn't matter to the story at large.

I'm honestly very disappointed, I think in large part because the essential plot was interesting, it was just muddled by ... well, by muddling about.