Pretty good. This author has a great imagination, and created a mostly engaging story. It has a good amount of action and interesting characters. Recommended.

Thanks very much for the free ARC for review!!

Unfortunately I was disappointed with this book. My french review on my blog will be posted on May 7.

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for providing this book.

My feelings about this read are very mixed, as I found that many ideas were expressed but not well developed, the same for the characters, and the whole thing was accompanied by a style that was shaky in my opinion. However, once past the first quarter, the story is well paced and easily read. Let's elaborate:
First of all, the characters. At the beginning of the text, the author introduces each character and their "role" in the story. The problem is that there are a lot of them, almost thirty, and that this kind of description, in my opinion, hinders the effect of surprise brought by the reading. As a comparison, Gideon the Ninth that I recently read also proposes, at the beginning of the story, a summary of the protagonists, but just mentioning their affiliation, without detailing exactly the role they play. Moreover, some of the protagonists of Fall of Titan are only lightly mentioned during the story, some being only sidekicks of others. Then, in the story itself, the few important characters are not very deep and lack tangibility, depth for my taste. I would prefer fewer people, but more defined, more endearing.
Then, the ideas. There are many ideas in this novel, but I find them lacking in credibility. Between the Orias who are just bad guys attacking Titan for who knows what reason, the myth that Emmeline pursues with absurd and easy resolution tracks, and the Imperial Command who are just there to put obstacles in Titan's way, we see a kind of caricature of a space opera story.
Finally, the author's style. I found the overall style and narration rather disappointing. Indeed, the story is served to us very simply in a rather naive construction for the expectations I have in terms of reading. The wordbuilding is minimal, each character is introduced to us at his first intervention by his physical characteristics in "ASV" (Age/Sex/City) mode. The protagonists have a hard time moving forward and spend a lot of time going in circles. The style is rather simple, and therefore accessible for people starting to read in English. I also have the feeling that from a purely scientific point of view, few things hold up and that bothered me a little in my reading.

Overall : Disappointed by this book which proposes interesting ideas but badly exploited, which are scattered. I couldn't get attached to the characters, so the only thing that kept me going was my curiosity, which wasn't satisfied.

Fall of Titan

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I really wished I could enjoyed this book more than I did. Maybe derivative is the way to describe it. I couldn't find anything note worthy while I read it. The tech is just taken from other sci-fi franchises (phasers, shields). I was a bit disappointed at this, since all I could think of was Star Trek at various points in the book.

The characters...all of them are just stereotypes, and even when evolved, they don't do stray away from the fact.

All that aside, when the true action begins, it's none stop, which was good...but about the only redeeming quality of the adventure.

I'm hoping that all of it was the result of this being the first book in the series. I will be reading the next installment in hopes that the overall story gets better.

Thank you for the free copy!

I really enjoyed this book. The setting is a massive space station orbiting close to Saturn. Earth has started interstellar travel. A group of aliens attacks the space station. There are many characters in this novel and all are well developed. I found the plot interesting and well worth a read.