Second chapter: Discoverlife's book

[mybabysinthegarden]

salut!

[wheresthehamster]

I enjoyed reading the book. I liked the characters and the setting in the future. Although I was amazed that so much could change in just two hundred years!!

Towards the end I got a bit confused with how this secret society could overthrow such a powerful organisation and the ending was a bit of science that lost me completely! Poor me! My excuse is I haven't been well so brain a bit fuzzy! Never mind, it didn't detract from me liking the book

[prettymum]

really started enjoying reading this book until the point where it came to the 'big' battle at the end, it was a huge disappointment as the whole story was leading to this overthrow and it ended very quickly.

felt like the ending was really rushed and didnt like it ending with so much scientific details about the water source.

[DontDreamItBeIt]

I really didn't like this one at all.
I couldn't believe in any of the characters, or the futuristic setting. It felt more historical to me tbh.
The fact that she spent years writing the first part, then finished it very quickly was apparent, too. The first 300 pages were really boring , and I considered giving up lots of times. I did enjoy the ending a bit more alhough the whole water manufacturing thing was very vague and not helpful.

The only bit I believed was Hepzibah leaving her baby right at the end (Not giving away any major plot lines here)

Sorry

[mybabysinthegarden]

I enjoyed the first part of this book but agree with everyone that the ending feels rushed after the leisurely pace of the beginning. And I am kind of confused by the ending too; I think it's supposed to be 'spiritual' rather than scientific and as I see it, the people on the space mission somehow captured a creationist vibration in the sphinx thing (but what was that? everyone says it doesn't look like anything that exists on earth) and then she lets it out at the end. But what is that supposed to accomplish? All I could think of was this Star Trek movie where they drop a device that's supposed to start life on a planet, which destroys everything that's there before it starts the cycle of creation.

One thing I did like was that in the history of the book, after the green revolution, industry used the new eco-awareness to hold the world to ransom; as a bit of an eco-skeptic myself I'm always appreciative of anything that doesn't toe the usual line on these issues.

[bookswapper]

i loved it apart from the rushed ending and felt more could have been made of the sphinx...am loving this book swap thing...i'm reading loads!

[yogabird]

i enjoyed it too took me a while to get into it but the 'science' - not for me really.

[MegBusset]

Sorry but I couldn't get into this at all and have given up, I just don't think it's very well written. Never mind, better luck next month!

[andyrobo237]

This book was ok - interesting to start with, if a little slow, but definately agree the ending was rushed - not entirely sure it made sense!

Agree also about the baby being left at the end - sounded just right!