欧宝娱乐

** spoiler alert ** I read The Ring and Spiral a while back and couldn't really remember much about what happened but that's ok as half way through there's a whole summary chapter recounting the events from the previous stories. Rather superfluous perhaps though in this case I couldn't complain.

After a long, slow prologue we jump forward a decade and everything grinds to a further halt. We're stuck sharing the sympathies (the few of them he has) of an irritating main character. Despite his lowly status as a medical student he seems remarkably up to date and conversant with complex physics and evolutionary biology and comes across very smug and childish. He has no patience for anyone else's viewpoint, especially those he supposedly loves and at times makes remarkable leaps of thought with no basis.

This would have got one star except I really liked the concepts at work tying everything together. It improves when the story switches to the US though the storytelling falls apart and it turns into extensive exposition. Still, the concepts and the grander universe created are intriguing. Maybe something's been lost in translation somewhere along the line. If you've read the other two and want to know how it ends then it's worth reading, otherwise skip it.