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Title: The Naked God, Part 2: Faith by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0-446-60518-2 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A hurried but fantastic completion to a awesome epic
Comment: I have always been a fan of epics such as the Dark Tower by Stephen King and Clive Barker's Imajica and usually always judge the epic on how the author finishes such a grand undertaking. Separted from the other five books in this series Faith is very well written with the awesome imagination fans expect from Mr. Hamilton. I usually judge a novel by asking myself "how in the world did they think this up?" If I can't answer that question then the author is tremendous indeed. The only reason I can't give this book a full five stars is my impression that it was concluded too fast. With an epic this complex I am sure Mr. Hamilton could have spared 200 more pages of indepthness. However, this could be an abridged version with an unedited edition to come! This is only my hope due to the fact that I love original and unedited editions, the Stand being my favorite example. This is the only fault I can give to this final installation. The ending, without spoiling it for others, was fantastic. I am greatly looking forward to The Confederation Handbook next December as a continuation of Mr. Hamilton's unique imagination.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quick ending is only a minor distraction to this great book
Comment: I loved this series. I really did. It's going to go down in my lists as one of the best Space Opera series I've read (comparisons of Peter Hamilton to Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov are very much deserved, in my opinion). This series is very intricate, with lots and lots of memorable characters and locations, large interstellar mysteries, alien races (both malevolent and benign), and plenty of action and warfare.
The thing I think I enjoyed most about this series was the characters that you learn so much about, and about whom you really learn to care by the end of the story. Also, the horror present in parts of this story is very much akin to what you'd read in stories by HP Lovecraft or Brian Lumley (witness what happens to Dariat and his companions and you'll get a taste of what true hopelessness and desperation feel like).
This series is so good, there isn't enough space here to talk about all the things I like about it. It's truly epic in scope, and comes to a very satisfactory conclusion. I especially enjoyed watching Quinn Dexter finally get what was coming to him.
My only reason for removing one star from this final book is due to the quick ending to the book. Humanity is truly at a point of final desperation, and it really appears that nothing is going to be able to stop the dead from taking over the universe. The solution to this dilemma comes literally in the last 20 pages of the book. It's the result of a quest that Joshua and his crew have been on for a long time, even getting involved in the civil war of a newly-discovered alien race in the process. Joshua is seeking an alien artifact with 'God power', and is hoping that this artifact can help them. However, when Joshua finds this artifact, rather than finding a solution that can help them solve their own problem, the artifact literally solves the problem for all of humanity in the matter of just a few pages. After all the work (mostly enjoyable) I had gone through reading all 6 of these books, it was a bit of a letdown to have things solved so completely and so quickly by an alien entity with all the answers.
But this is a minor criticism. Peter Hamilton has done something that not many authors even attempt, and even fewer ever do successfully. He's created a very detailed and interesting universe with lots of memorable characters and settings that's a lot of overall fun to read. If the ending is a bit hurried, it's at worst only a minor disappointment that's definitely overshadowed by the scope and greatness of this series.
Rating: 1
Summary: More LIke "Naked Ending"
Comment: The first book of the series got me interested enough to read the rest, and although I had problems with many aspects of the story, I kept reading, hoping that the ending would make it worthwhile. I was warned about the ending by a cousin, but I kept on, hoping that he was just being too critical. He was not. The bad guys were really bad, which is good, but the good guys were not particularly good. It was very difficult to like any character much past his or her introduction, as they all tended to shed any morals they had at the first opportunity. The expectation was that the ending would point them in the right direction, but instead we got the wave of a magic wand, and everything's okay, even though no one deserves it.
The shame of it is that the effort, the scope, and many of the ideas were impressive. A touch of decency would have gone a long way.
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Title: The Neutronium Alchemist : Part I - Consolidation (Neutronium Alchemist) by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446605174 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446605166 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446605158 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446606715 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel) by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0812590562 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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