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1.0 out of 5 starsit just doesn't make sense
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023
The whole book can be summarized as CCP bad, americans good, individualist selfless heros who just want to help. I enjoy reading books with varied political viewpoints (common for near future SciFi), even when authors get too preachy with the points I don't necessary agree with (Christopher Nuttall, I'm talking about you), but at least the story needs to be good. Here the bad guys were so over the top. For example, CCP so ruthless they would destroy a church during a service, really? And on the way to the asteroid chinese ship shot the recently launched Tesla car just for the fun of it, which was quiet conveniently along the way to their destination, what a coincidence.
Yet I could stomach all that if the story made sense. Why were Jiangs targeted? Why was their retrieval a priority, when their ship was initially disabled in a way that was practically certain to kill them, and if their retrieval was a priority why were there attempts to destroy the shuttle on which they were located? What was the purpose of satellite hacking, and why was nobody paying attention when large number of satellites were affected (unlikely that all departments in a large organization would have such single minded preoccupation with one event). What was chinese ship expecting to achieve, and how come events didn't trigger world war 3 when you had american and chinese ship firing missiles on each other?
