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The Forever Watch (2014)

by David B. Ramirez(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1250033810 (ISBN13: 9781250033819)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: This book should become a movie. The concepts, technology, and discoveries in the story would make for an excellent sci fi film. The book, however, was a tough read. I almost put it down around 40 pages, but I really like to finish what I start. Still after 100 pages, the story barely picked up in pace and it is nearly all in the head of the main character. The beginning is entirely skimmable. The end of the story was completely unexpected, though, so I'm glad I stuck around for the payoff. If I could rate the sections of the book, the beginning would get 1 star, but the end gets a solid 3 stars for the interesting concepts presented.
review 2: I'm surprised at how many people loved this book. I've been getting back into SF lately and have read a few goo... mored ones. For me, the experience of reading Forever Watch was like someone quietly tapping on a piece of tin with a ball peen hammer. I was annoyed throughout with a cumulative effect enough to motivate lazy me into writing a review. I almost wouldn't know where to start describing this clunker. I guess if you read a lot of SF, and you're willing to suspend disbelief, as in throw it completely overboard, and you resonate with the creepy beauty-and-the-beast love story, you'll probably like it well enough. It's his first novel and he'll most likely improve. If you actually think about the book, and I wouldn't recommend that, it flies by telekinesis into the dumpster. So, an alien ship crashes on earth presumably with no aliens aboard, but infects humans with a unbelievable disease, and earth freezes non-infected humans and attaches them to the alien ship, but then has an entire crew of infected humans who birth scary monsters who then birth humans, and the infected humans die by falling apart (literally), but the crew decided that they would live in an authoritarian, materialistic, Dickensian society so the future crews wouldn't just kill themselves and once they reach the new home world all the infected humans will be flown into the sun. Not to mention the psychic ability thing - apparently humans have psychic abilities and the aliens just so happen to have the technology to amplify these traits, i.e. big, strong people have a psychic ability to become fierce fighters, while foppish men and fey women can build skyscrapers out of alien plastic with their minds. Maybe I could have tolerated the plot if not for the main character's excruciating internal monologues and the boring computer programming ramblings. I never did get a feel for the big lug boyfriend - he seemed like a poorly drawn rock 'em sock 'em robot - oh, but did they love ... before she went to live in the computer, which, gosh, I didn't see coming. The book is like passing a car accident - I would advise keeping your eyes on the road. less

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