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Sep 16, 2016ggyetko rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If you liked all the thrashing around and trying to figure out a mysterious maze in Maze Runner, but you'd like a book written by someone who can complete sentences and has a point in mind before he starts, this is a good book. I won't pretend this the first time in my life I wished a book came with a few diagrams, but some of Bear's descriptions of the dozens and dozens of rooms inside the various Hulls could really have used illustration. More problematically, he introduced far too many rooms without ever explaining what purpose they served (either technically, to the ship, or narrative-wise, to the story) so I couldn't be sure which ones I should be paying attention to. That said, the book does close off nicely with a sensible ending which ties up the purposes of many of the things the protagonist experiences along the way. There's just a bit too much noise along the way, which is why I gave it four stars instead of five.