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Artemis Awakening (2014)

by Jane Lindskold(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

076533710X (ISBN13: 9780765337108)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Artemis Awakened

review 1: This was a decent enough story. It's the type of Planetary Romance that would have been right at home in the 1970s and 1980s: a guy crashlands on a long-lost planet and as he enlists help from the locals to get back to his orbiting ship he becomes engaged in their lives along the way.It's a bit lightweight, which is no big deal. I was annoyed by a few sudden deus ex machina moments (suddenly the space visitor and one of the scholars can communicate via dreams) but the worse issue is that about 2/3 of the way through I realized there was no way she was going to wrap this story up in the pages she had left. Sure enough, there's no really satisfying ending. The local warlord is defeated but he gets away and the initial dilemma of getting off-planet is still unresolved.It was ... moredecent enough and I'd give it to a teenager without hesitation, but I won't be back for the sequel.
review 2: In this new series by Jane Lindskold, Artemis Awakening is the story of a pleasure planet, created centuries ago by a technologically advanced society where the inhabitants were bio engineered to help guests enjoy themselves. After a war in which this advanced society was destroyed, the planet was forgotten until a young archeologist Griffin crash lands on the planet. In his quest to find a way home, he teams up with the locals and uncovers a vast conspiracy to enslave and manipulate the locals. The book was okay, with some high points and some low points. I think the major flaw was that the characterization was weak so I really didn't identify with any of the main characters less

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