dare rated The killing of worlds: 4 stars
The killing of worlds by Scott Westerfeld (Succession ;)
"Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate faces a suicied mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with …
The Quiet Invasion had all the elements of a great sci-fi story, but they never quite cohered into one. Still, it was an interesting story about first contact with a reasonably strange culture. It was also set on Venus with at least a reasonably hard take on the science, and the backdrop was definitely great.
The plot was, at times, a mess, the politics alternated between silly, tired and interesting, the characters were mostly excellent even if many of them grabbed the Idiot Ball more often than I'd have liked, the dialogue was surprisingly clunky ... the book kept alternating between being really good and interesting, and being just overly simple. Also, the ending was very abrupt; I'd have liked to have seen more.
I can still recommend Quiet Invasion, because I was never bored or annoyed by it, except for the feel that it could have been so much …
