Reviewed by -- Jacqueline Driggers
Book Review of -- Outpassage by Janet and Chris
Morris
My overall star rating - from 1-5 --- 2
About the book:
Sgt. “Det”
Cox has just spent three years under psych observation on Earth; now that he’s
out-system, he isn’t about to tell anyone he’s seeing aliens again. Paige
Barnett has lost everything, even her name, because she knows too much about
the rebellion spreading through the Earth-Space mining colonies.
Together
Cox and Barnett stumble upon the mystery at the revolution’s heart and learn
why the rebels are willing to die for it.
Is their
discovery humanity’s worst threat or greatest gift? The authorities are willing
to destroy whole planets to keep the revolution’s secret from reaching Earth…
What’s to stop them from destroying two people
Book creation ratings:
Overall
total -- 16 out of a possible 30
-- Story
& characters -- 3
-- Cover
& title -- 5
-- Editing
-- 8
* based on
a 1-10 scale with: 1-4, poor; 5-7, good;
8-10, very good.*
My 5 point review:
It starts
out like a good old-fashioned science fiction novel, but it's not. I initially
thought it was going to be about characters Cox and Barnett on the trail of
some good old fashioned space intrigue. But it's not. It was disappointing that
Cox and Barnett spend most of the book separate.
Yeah,
there's aliens involved; but not the cool kind.
They seem to start fights so people will die, so they can take the
corpses and resurrect them into religious fanatics and spread the . . . .
whatever. Just what it is they are spreading . . . not so clear. They sort of
become religious zombies.
Summing it
all up, it's a disappointing book with a very unsatisfying ending. Had the
makings, initially, of a good old science fiction romp. But it's not, not at
all. There's a substantial amount of violence, and distinct religious
overtones.
Reader Recommendations
Genre --
science fiction
Age
recommendations -- 17 plus
Sex
content rating -- moderate
Violence
rating -- high
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