My rating: 5 of 5 stars
If you like action, this is the novel for you. I can envisage each scene in my mind’s eye as if BV has mentally shifted his vision right to my imagination. The concept resembles some of the mind-leaps in the novel; the way the main character Cadell communicates with the alien being who is part of him—body and mind; the link between the alien spacecraft and it’s pilot.
Without any regard for his looks, and disregarding each new pain his body endures, Cadell surpasses his mixed-human counterparts, and has little sympathy for their weakness until a woman with similar mental abilities lowers his defense enough to be able to understand her perspective.
I felt empathy for the unique, and so far foreign in type, character, so, understanding his motives, I wanted him to succeed and achieve his goals. BC Bayly’s clever writing of the events only his conception could perceive left me enthralled in the technology of worlds and situations I have no knowledge of.
At the end of the gripping novel, where Cadell achieved his goal, I longed for more.
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