A Deepness in the Sky

I liked the first book and was kinda feeling this one up until the event happens that sets up the plot for the ships section and it's just too unbelievable for the setting. Took me completely out of the story. Too many people were distrustful for no one to have checked for a thing that should have been checked for as a normal precaution of meeting another group of humans from a different country if you had the tech much less an apparently hostile world.

And good read that captivates early but loses momentum until by the end you simply read to get to the conclusion. I feel the author got too caught up in minor character sub stories and that he tried too hard to make the spider aliens have human characteristics. He explains too much and this fictional book wrings away reader imagination and leaves a textbook feel. Never get attached to any one character as the story jumps about between a dozen different characters. An odd conclusion without sentiment

This prequels give you a little more background to one of the major characters of A Fire Upon the Deep that kinda make you go "ohh, so thats how it was for him." I recommend this to almost everyone.