I had to listen to all three books before deciding how I felt about it.

I found it compelling enough to have to listen to all three books before I could judge it. In that sense I’m sure the publishers happy. I felt like the editor didn’t do their job properly and that the prosaic repetition was extremely annoying.

A science fiction series in the vein of Asimov or Clarke that attempts to utilise known science and create a scenario that is compelling. Babylon five was more convincing but on the positive many of Tchaikovsky characters are extremely charming.

It’s a real mixed bag as far as series novels go. The overall arch, drowned in verbiage rather than skilled writing contrasted with a physics of quite a compelling universe and institutions, races etc

Everyone turns out to be a good guy so it lacks actual tooth in a Frank Herbert sense (Dune where bad people are really bad people and Machiavellian politics are really nasty). This just doesn't carry it off.

by the end, I feel disappointed by this work. It never really had a foot in any reality I recognise fictional or not. It has so many and then they woke up moments and the disasters were formulaic and perennial. Paced to a metronome, You always knew the heroes would survive and that some new badness would rise up the moment they were clear. it was almost tedium in places.

It’s a Penny dreadful, a good pot boiler but I suspect it will fade from the shelves within a decade. It doesn’t haunt the imagination like Jeff Noons, Vurt, or charm you with its stupid machismo like Larsons undying mercenaries. If you’ve nothing better then it’s good, but it’s not great writing and it’s not the stainless steel rat the writing lacks personality. it feels like what an ai might think is a good novel rather than the vision of an obsessed science fiction buff with an encyclopaedic knowledge of their own imagination. .That's whats bothering me about this work. it had no author personality shining through. it was pure marketing, formula and attempts at being clever.

I prefer Tamsyn Muir because she makes you work for comprehending WTAF us going on. This was as equally confused, but laid out on a plate with sugar at every twist. I'd already predicted the end in no small part half way through book two.

He does build some compelling characters but doesn't really take risks with them. Not bad, not great… Disappointed as I'd read some glowing descriptions of this series.

This is kids science fiction, written for an audience that have no or low expectations.

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