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Book Review of Odyssey (Engines of God, Bk 5)

Odyssey (Engines of God, Bk 5)
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MacAllister is the main character here, and while he's kind of interesting, I like Hutch a lot more. I wish McDevitt would put her back in the pilot's seat. I liked how McDevitt had the humans plot to get an advantage from the moonrider sightings - that's so typical, and all the political maneuvering seemed completely natural. But this book takes a loooooong time to get where it's going due to all of that plus the lengthy news snippets that McDevitt throws in at each chapter. There's a bit of edge-of-your-seat danger but not as intense as in some of the previous. Liked Amy, liked what Hutch did to her boss, Valya's story was appropriately taken care of. The religious subplot was, IMO, completely extraneous; I didn't understand what it's relationship was to the rest of the story. As a subplot, seems like a really stupid thing for MacAllister to follow so closely as the conclusion was foregone. And WTH happened with the Hefferman? Giant mystery how it ended up where it did, but that whole bit was just dropped. Hmmm, oh well, I still read it through and I'll be going on to the next.