Monday, October 26, 2009
 
Book Report: Lovelock by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd (1994)
I read this book after my experience with The Ruins, and I was pleased to remember how good fiction should roll. This is my first Orson Scott Card book (although it's a collaboration), so I didn't know what to expect. But it's a well-paced science fiction bit. The main character is a mute enhanced monkey who acts as a "witness" for an important scientist as she and her family join a one-way expedition to the stars on an extremely large vessel called The Ark.

The monkey becomes sentient, starts breaking his bonds and conditioning, and outwits most of the people in the book. Additionally, the family breaks down under the strains of the preliminary steps to space travel. And then the book sort of ends without any real resolution or major plot arc settlement, as this is the first of a trilogy. Still, the book was fresh enough and paced well enough that I did not mind.

I might have to pick up the others in the series to see what happens next; however, the book ended without a cliffhanger or anything, so I'm not driven.

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