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When it first came out, years ago, I read and loved the Pliocene Exiles series. Julian May became one of my favorite authors of the era. Now I was younger then, so picking up this Perseus Spur book, I must conclude that one of two things has happened: either Julian May has never been very good, and my tastes have changes; or May's writing is deteriorating. Based on the other reviews I have seen here, I wonder if it may not be the latter!
2) What's wrong with it?
Oh, you know, everything. But worst of all: it reads like an awkward adolescent male fantasy while Julian May is in theory a female adult. The main character's painfully bad moves on the female interest are absolutely agonizing, at every step. Moreover, none of the characters are even remotely compelling. I couldn't care less who lives, who dies, or who ends up with whom. When they do eventually get it on, it is ick ick ick. Not to mention rather improbable.
One thing I particularly remember about the Pliocene books was that they had vivid characters.
But the characters in Perseus Spur are flat, uninteresting, and unpersuasive.
3) The story.
Helmut "Helly" Icicle, comes out of exile to rescue his family's galactic corporation. The rich good guys win, the rich bad guys lose, and the Helly's not-rich friends from exile are forgotten by chapter three (except for the one rich friend from exile, who hangs around to save the hero a couple of times).
Bad things happen to Helly: his house is eaten by a sea monster. He is staked to a comet. He is trapped in an underground bunker with a bomb. A giant alien lizard falls on him. Good things happen to Helly: the bad fortunes of his exile are reversed, snivelling corporate weasels' jaws drop when they see him returned, he isn't killed by any of the bad things, he gets the girl.
But in the end, you probably won't give two figs one way or the other.
4) The best thing about the book?
On the back cover is a blurb quotation from the above Amazon.co.uk review. When a publisher needs to go to Amazon to take a vaguely positive blurb out of context to help sell the book, you know they are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
(Ooh, but look: Amazon quotes the amazon quote in the "From the back cover" section. It's like mirrors receding infinitely into the distance!)
Which makes for a great read. This is a good book, with an interesting setting and a fun adventure. It is not a thinking cap book, like her other books, so if that is what you like, you might not like this book so much.
And I agree--May must have had great fun writing this book, it would seem. It sure was fun to read it!
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