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I'm not sure how to rate this book. Wen Spencer writes some of my favorite stories, and while this isn't one of them, it still has many of the hallmarks of a Spencer book: the breadth of alien races, the intelligent compassionate MCs, the emphasis on relationships, and what it means to be a person. All those elements are present and yet the book never quite gells into Spencer's usual wonderful story.

I think what's missing is a true MC. Instead of focussing on one character, the story follows three people--Mikhail, Turk and Paige--and the divided attention makes it hard to feel completely connected to any one of the three. At first I thought Spencer started off dividing the focus because the three characters were in different places, but even after they all arrived in the same location, there still wasn't a true MC to bond with. This meant that it took most of the book for me to feel attached to the MCs, and as soon as I felt connected to them, the book was over.

The problem wasn't just that the reader got bounced around between Paige, Turk and Mikhail; rather it seemed like none of the characters were given enough time and attention to create a satisfying relationship with the reader. We saw enough of a few individuals, like Eraphie or Rabbit, to begin caring about them and then, bang! they were gone for most of the rest of the book.

Another issue forme was the disjointed nature of the plot. It couldn't seem to decide what sort of story it was, and so there were bits and pieces of several plotlines that didn't quite come together into a cohesive whole. There was the alien contact/war that came out of nowhere piece, the solve the mystery of the alien artifact piece, the find a way home piece, the fix the messy relationship between adapted and unadapted humans piece, etc. Spencer usually does a much better job at pulling it all together than she did here, and once again, I think staying with one person's viewpoint would have helped her organize the plot strands and weave them into a narrative whole.

The universe is amazing, and I wish Spencer would tell another story that took all the intriguing bits--the alien races like the hak, the minotaurs, the seraphim, the civ, etc., the floating landmasses and the built-up wrecks--where the story was purely about people living in the Sargasso, their relationships with one another and their struggles. I'd be happy to buy that book. This one, however, needs to decide what it wants to be and prune away anything else--I'm not sorry I read it, but won't reread.


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Endless Blue Wen Spencer 9781416573852 Books Reviews

I got this relatively new book on vacation from the library and quickly read 150 pages of it. Then, it was time to leave so we went to a brick and mortar bookstore and I could not find it. I ordered it from . It came weeks after I read the beginning of the novel, so I had to and enjoyed re-reading it. Re-reading my not be necessary for this novel, but the set- up for Saragasso is very different and I recommend it.

In the far future, Captain Mikhail Volkhov of the Svoboda, his brother Turk who is and commands the Reds on the ship, -- people designed as super- warriors, but Mikhail is the clone of Peter the Great and will be Tsar of New Russia -- are ordered to discover what happened to the ship Fenrir, which disappeared, and has reappeared encased in coral. They wind up in Saragasso, a sea without a planet, where ships go when they can't or don`t make their jump. Time, physics and many other things don`t obey the laws we know. Turk meets Paige who runs a fishing boat with many family members and is an amazing linguist and translator. She makes Turk feel like the man he is. Mikhail, who`s lost a lot of ship, his crew, he thinks Turk, was never terribly sane and takes a bad turn.

A very unusual first contact novel, space exploration, military sf, character-driven hard science fiction. A mix of things that are rarely successfully mixed, but this is a real keeper.

Sometimes Wen Spencer writes series, sometimes she writes one-offs. I really enjoyed the people of this universe. I would like to read more about their lives. But I will read whatever she publishes.
This a great story, with a unique 'world', full of wonderful characters and species. The editing could have used another pass--things like riff used instead of rift and some missing words-- format sucked at my reading with a complete lack of distinction between scene and POV changes making it a bit dizzying to keep track of who and where you were in the story. Definitely worth the struggle, though, and I'm hoping to see more in this universe almost as much as I'm looking forward to the next in the Tinker series by the same author (if you haven't read them, give it a whirl--it's good stuff, too). And if the next one has better formatting, I'll be looking forward to it just as much. ;)
I like a book that stretches my thinking. I like Wen Spencer. For those two reasons, Endless Blue should have been a good novel for me.

Hear the "but" coming? The novel seems to launch into the middle of a story (more so than Spencer's "Eight Million Gods", but that's a whole other story). New terms, alien races, phlosophical quibbles and plot wedgies just keep coming. There are very few "standard" humans in the tale, and the ones who are, are nasty folks indeed. Even the "adapted" humans (Red and Blue alike - no kidding, and nothing to do with US party politics, either) are complexly and bafflingly alien at times. (Of course, if you like C.J. Cherryh's novels, this is right up your alley.) And others have mentioned the explicit sex - this is definitely not a novel for your sweet sixteen reader. Throw in a lot of unexplained Buddhist and Japanese Shinto terminology, and this is a very bumpy roller-coaster.

But it works! The characters are intriguing, the story is compelling, the adventure is thrilling, and I enjoyed it all. And while it can be annoying to be left out of the inside tale at the beginning, I don't believe it would be as satisfying at the end if everything had been explained as it came up.

Strap in, expect to grab some air, and enjoy the whole ride - I did!
I'm not sure how to rate this book. Wen Spencer writes some of my favorite stories, and while this isn't one of them, it still has many of the hallmarks of a Spencer book the breadth of alien races, the intelligent compassionate MCs, the emphasis on relationships, and what it means to be a person. All those elements are present and yet the book never quite gells into Spencer's usual wonderful story.

I think what's missing is a true MC. Instead of focussing on one character, the story follows three people--Mikhail, Turk and Paige--and the divided attention makes it hard to feel completely connected to any one of the three. At first I thought Spencer started off dividing the focus because the three characters were in different places, but even after they all arrived in the same location, there still wasn't a true MC to bond with. This meant that it took most of the book for me to feel attached to the MCs, and as soon as I felt connected to them, the book was over.

The problem wasn't just that the reader got bounced around between Paige, Turk and Mikhail; rather it seemed like none of the characters were given enough time and attention to create a satisfying relationship with the reader. We saw enough of a few individuals, like Eraphie or Rabbit, to begin caring about them and then, bang! they were gone for most of the rest of the book.

Another issue forme was the disjointed nature of the plot. It couldn't seem to decide what sort of story it was, and so there were bits and pieces of several plotlines that didn't quite come together into a cohesive whole. There was the alien contact/war that came out of nowhere piece, the solve the mystery of the alien artifact piece, the find a way home piece, the fix the messy relationship between adapted and unadapted humans piece, etc. Spencer usually does a much better job at pulling it all together than she did here, and once again, I think staying with one person's viewpoint would have helped her organize the plot strands and weave them into a narrative whole.

The universe is amazing, and I wish Spencer would tell another story that took all the intriguing bits--the alien races like the hak, the minotaurs, the seraphim, the civ, etc., the floating landmasses and the built-up wrecks--where the story was purely about people living in the Sargasso, their relationships with one another and their struggles. I'd be happy to buy that book. This one, however, needs to decide what it wants to be and prune away anything else--I'm not sorry I read it, but won't reread.