Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 9/4/2021 + 1032 more book reviews

Hutch takes on the Omega clouds again, but this time as an bureaucrat. Her role is now pretty limited, which is too bad as I think she is a more interesting character than the others in this story. Stuck on Earth she doesn't get to do much except answer the phone in the middle of the night. The plot unfolds pretty much the same as the others in this series - a major discovery, limited resources with which to explore it, a few characters make decisions that get them killed. It's kind of fun to look at the cast in the beginning and bet which of them won't make it. I would have liked the Goompahs to be a bit more alien, but that might be a different story. The very end of the book has a great sentence: "I wonder what we would have done if they were barbarians. Or looked like insects." Also a solution to the Omega clouds! That was interesting, and the reason for them was as good as any.

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