Paul reviewed Coyote by Allen Steele
Review of 'Coyote' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Allen Steele has thrown a lot of ideas into Coyote, but never really stopped to develop any of them. The end result is both superficial and disjointed.
This, I realise, is quite a damning criticism of a hard-sf novel in itself. But the problem is compounded by the characters - they are one-dimensional, often inconsistent and uniformly uninteresting. I realy couldn't bring myself to care what happened to any of them.
I had heard many good things about Coyote before I read it but the book has proved to be a disappointment. It wasn't bad enough to abandon, but reaching the end did become a bit of a struggle at times.
Allen Steele has thrown a lot of ideas into Coyote, but never really stopped to develop any of them. The end result is both superficial and disjointed.
This, I realise, is quite a damning criticism of a hard-sf novel in itself. But the problem is compounded by the characters - they are one-dimensional, often inconsistent and uniformly uninteresting. I realy couldn't bring myself to care what happened to any of them.
I had heard many good things about Coyote before I read it but the book has proved to be a disappointment. It wasn't bad enough to abandon, but reaching the end did become a bit of a struggle at times.
