Hello readers, it has been quite some time since my last review. I’ve been fully engrossed in my own writing and it actually took me quite a long time to read this. Just a quick update. This is the third of the Children of Time Series. I had already read the first two. So what did I think of this one?
Well first off, I think you’d really need to have read the first two before you could make sense of this. It is set in a complex universe and I think it would be just too confusing without having read the other two.
This is the blurb from the book –
On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But, generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the inexplicable lurks in the woods and the community fears that it’s being observed – that they’re not alone.
They’d be right, as explorers from the stars have arrived in secret to help this lost outpost. Confident of their superior technology, and overseen by the all-knowing construct of Doctor Avrana Kern, they begin to study their long-lost cousins from Earth.
Yet the planet hides deeper mysteries. It seems the visitors aren’t the only watchers. And when the starfarers discover the scale of their mistake, it will be far too late to escape.
There are two main characters Liff, a young girl growing up on the planet, and Miranda, one of the explorers from the stars. Many common sci-fi tropes are brought up such as when, if ever should a more advanced civilization affect the affairs of a more primitive one.
There is a major twist near the end, but I found it most unsatisfying. It made the whole novel feel somewhat redundant. I still recommend that people read the first two books, especially the first but this one not so much.
I give it 3.5 out of 5.
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