It is time to abandon ship me mateys! I am so very sad to have to abandon another ship. This trend of abandoning novels is starting to alarm me. This book had a cool concept including a murder mystery, firm noir, inhabited plants in our solar system, and even a prologue told from the point of view of a prologue. But I stopped and started reading this novel over 5 times and only made it to page 75 of 429. Okay . . . I will also admit that I did something even more out of character for me then not finishing the whole book. I also read the last chapter ::gasp:: from page 422 to 429 after getting stuck on 75.

You see, I thought that if perhaps the murder mystery ending part was interesting enough then I could make myself go back and finish it to see how the story wound to that conclusion. Yet again. Failure. I just did not find the story appealing. I mean the structure of the story was interesting. The story was told out of order with some chapters being film scripts, some being newspaper gossip articles, some being straight narrative, etc. The novel seemed more interested in playing with form than anything else and the plot was too disjointed. I could not even care about the characters. Shame too since so many people seem to love this author. This Captain could have done without.

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