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Summary: I'm bored, bored, bored
Review: I can't, honestly, rate this book as worse than 3 stars. Nor can I rate it better than 3 stars. The characters, for all that the author gives them quirks and twists, are cardboard. You know exactly who is going to do what from the first chapter on. The author telegraphed the solution.As for the social picture painted, it's just Poland under communism. Blah, blah, blah. This is not challenging, it's just bleak, boring and depressing. This book killed the hour and a half it was meant to; don't buy it if you really value your money, or you don't have a second-hand bookstore nearby.
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Summary: I'm bored, bored, bored
Review: I can't, honestly, rate this book as worse than 3 stars. Nor can I rate it better than 3 stars. The characters, for all that the author gives them quirks and twists, are cardboard. You know exactly who is going to do what from the first chapter on. The author telegraphed the solution. As for the social picture painted, it's just Poland under communism. Blah, blah, blah. This is not challenging, it's just bleak, boring and depressing. This book killed the hour and a half it was meant to; don't buy it if you really value your money, or you don't have a second-hand bookstore nearby.
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Summary: This Author Is an Automatic Buy for Me
Review: I hate this author's dystopian future. I hate the idea of being cold, unwashed and underfed. From my comfortable middleclass couch though I love to travel with her characters through the dreadful underbelly of their society. These are future police procedurals that are as believable as Ed McBain's 87th Precinct and as scary as anything ever written in the dystopian SF genre.
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Summary: This Author Is an Automatic Buy for Me
Review: I hate this author's dystopian future. I hate the idea of being cold, unwashed and underfed. From my comfortable middleclass couch though I love to travel with her characters through the dreadful underbelly of their society. These are future police procedurals that are as believable as Ed McBain's 87th Precinct and as scary as anything ever written in the dystopian SF genre.
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Summary: Vitola trys too hard. Great American novel is not here.
Review: I have read both Quantum and Opalite Moons and feel like I've been sufficiently mooned. I'm always interested in new talent and I applaud it. Vitola appears to be striving for an anthology, having thus far double-mooned us. Dare we speculate that her third offering will have "Moon" in the title? Thanks for the warning. Vitola strains to perfect "cleverness" in her characters and plots. She is preoccupied with creating unforgettable characters (in the eye of the beholder),than with the essence of good story-telling. I look for believability in her writing and cannot find any. Her work is quite immature, overly stated, taxing, boring, and I feel stupid for having read it. A good read provides information and entertainment. Poorly written texts are frequently good sellers. My wallet can take the price, but my brain can't take the lack lustre brain dump.
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Summary: A good read
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Vitola's earlier books (Half-Light, Winter Man, Quantum Moon), but Opalite Moon surpasses them all. Its intricate plot (with steadily building tension), revealed through intriguing characters, kept me reading till the wee hours to find out how it ended. Vitola's unique vision of our world in the future, spiced with numerous metaphysical elements (on which she's obviously done extensive research), hooked me from the very first sentence. Can't wait to see what she comes up with next!
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Summary: Expertly written, spellbinding story. Read it!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Vitola's earlier books (Half-Light, Winter Man, Quantum Moon), but Opalite Moon surpasses them all. Its intricate plot (with steadily building tension), revealed through intriguing characters, kept me reading till the wee hours to find out how it ended. Vitola's unique vision of our world in the future, spiced with numerous metaphysical elements (on which she's obviously done extensive research), hooked me from the very first sentence. Can't wait to see what she comes up with next!
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Summary: A good read
Review: It gets a little scary when Ms. Vitola goes into the various ways the world has been taken over by a government. However, her characters are good and the plot is passable.
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Summary: Vitola Excells
Review: Just finished reading Opalite Moon and can't wait to start on Manjinn Moon. Ms. Vitola's creation of Ty is complete, a sleuth of uncommon skill. The environment Ms. Vitola has envisioned for our future is possible and she makes you live it. I enjoyed her previous book, Quantum Moon and I feel that the author has grown in her skills with this book to make you believe. You won't be putting the book down until you finish it. Since her series, as it is now apparent, deals with the moon, all I can say is, I look forward to being mooned again. Excellent.
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Summary: In OPALITE MOON, Vitola flies us to the moon in style!
Review: OPALITE MOON -- NOMINATED FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SCIENCE FICTION propels Vitola into the realm of this generation's Arthur C. Clarke! Ty Merrick, a lycnathropic detective, searches for justices by day and answers by night. In the latest of the MOON series, Ty and her outlandishly loveable partner, Andy LaRue, delve into the underworld of the Opalite when they learn that three of the members die during their mystic initiation rites. With her captivating words and intriguing vision of the future, she weaves a story that immediately propels us into Detective Ty Merrick's world -- and she does it soooo well that I can't count the minutes fast enough until her next MOON book comes out! **This is a must read for anyone with a sense of intelligent adventure, a love of good writing, and an eye for the next sci-fi author superstar!!!
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