This rating was a tough one, it probably deserves 3 just based on how well written it is. But the rating given is in a large part based on my subjective enjoyment of the book and it all came down to this nagging unhappiness that kept creeping up on me throughout the book (and good grief it's almost 500 pages long! but I finished it) and the huge letdown I felt at the ending.
Even though most of the book is taken up with this one group/family striving to accomplish something/anything to get rid of the aliens the overall message felt like it was - there's nothing anyone can ever do and when you do actually do something it won't amount to anything. I'm pretty sure that was the exact opposite of what the author was trying to convey based on a few paragraphs at the end, but truly that was the message that held through most of the book and the few paragraphs here and there that faintly gave a different message hardly amounted to a hill of beans against such overwhelming blah. Okay, I get that these few who have striven and passed on the desire to strive for something more will usher in something better moving forward from the end of the book, but hey, it's not like we get to see any of that - I'd much preferred to have actually seen humanity doing better.
Also, I didn't like any of the characters. Of course that might be because we hardly get to know any of them more than superficially and the family/clan just kept growing and growing, so more and more people would be mentioned which got pretty confusing.
So, I'm kinda sorry I wasted my time on this book and I wouldn't recommend reading it...
Even though most of the book is taken up with this one group/family striving to accomplish something/anything to get rid of the aliens the overall message felt like it was - there's nothing anyone can ever do and when you do actually do something it won't amount to anything. I'm pretty sure that was the exact opposite of what the author was trying to convey based on a few paragraphs at the end, but truly that was the message that held through most of the book and the few paragraphs here and there that faintly gave a different message hardly amounted to a hill of beans against such overwhelming blah. Okay, I get that these few who have striven and passed on the desire to strive for something more will usher in something better moving forward from the end of the book, but hey, it's not like we get to see any of that - I'd much preferred to have actually seen humanity doing better.
Also, I didn't like any of the characters. Of course that might be because we hardly get to know any of them more than superficially and the family/clan just kept growing and growing, so more and more people would be mentioned which got pretty confusing.
So, I'm kinda sorry I wasted my time on this book and I wouldn't recommend reading it...
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