Sunday, November 21, 2021

Agent of Change by Steve and Sharon

 This book/series was recommended to me because I was looking for similar stuff to Liu's Three Body Problem, and its amazing technology and weapons that wrap dimensions.  This book was a total disappointment.  It doesn't even come close.  The closest I can describe it is "Pirate Romance in Space,with Ninja Turtles" written with 13-year old teenage girls in mind.  The prose is terrible.  The names are terrible.  Miri, Siri, Biri, Clan, Vlan, Val, Vlon, Con, blah, blah, blah.  Now I realize why Heinlein was so against made up shit names in SciFi and he called his main characters "John".

The worst part of the book is the "thoughts" of Miri and how she is trying to figure out whether she wants to fuck Val Con or not, pretty much for the entirety of the book.  There are some special police 'junatavas' which sounds like from a bad comic book.  The Ninja Turtles are supposed to be some cool aliens, but they barely have the personality of an average Labrador.

Overall, this book is a complete disappointment and absolute waste of time.  It reads like those 10c "romance" novels you see in supermarkets, but set in Space.