![]() The reader is again asked to simply accept that a Rear Admiral, a military man, is going to accept the word of a love struck cadet that someone who has good grades, but has huge problems with authority and immaturity issues that another cadet, her love interest, is worth keeping around in the academy.ģ. (IE the discussion in a class) This is probably the biggest gap, and it feels like the author was simply trying to find a way to set the character apart in the beginning, but attaching a manufactured shame to brilliance.Ģ. The only attempt to justify this in enough time to keep a reader interested is smacked down with even more of the author forcing the audience simply to accept 'this is a big deal'. If this had been a satire over race relations in 1960's, okay maybe I can accept that, but it wasn't. The idea of people arguing over being weightless and other people hating the weightless is absurd. ![]() The reader is asked simply to accept that the invention of artificial gravity suddenly creates these two distinct classes of people and sends shock waves down the social atmospheres of space travel. I'm not going to pick it up again, I'm not going to try and get to the part where other people here feel they can't put it down.īut to show I'm not just blowing hot air, I'll list my grievances:ġ. This constant focus of high school style love affairs is not only annoying and detracting from possibly good plot lines, but the protagonist, who annoys me more than any other character I've ever read, approaches stalker level annoyance. The logical gaps and plot holes are just too massive to ignore to try and trudge forward for another 200 some odd pages. I'm not going to pick it up again, I'm not going to try and get This is not going to be like the other reviews. ![]() This is not going to be like the other reviews. As seen through the eyes of four enthusiastic, young adults, the series looks at humanity and its struggles five centuries after the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. "As someone who generally isn't interested in science fiction, I liked this book because the people and their experiences were the focus rather than the science fiction.I enjoyed seeing the characters come into their own.I did not anticipate the ending - it was a great twist" - Reader reviewĬall of Destiny is the first book of the science fiction series One Small Step out of the Garden of Eden. "The characters were well developed and the suspense kept me turning the pages!!" - Reader review “The book has lots of good twists and an interesting futuristic society.”. Will the stubborn, free-spirited, and idealistic young man wash out before realizing his dream? Will his family’s past get the best of him? Can he keep his mind off other, more enticing distractions? Will he get his chance to set off into the stars before a terrible war breaks out? But when he sets out to a military academy to fulfill his lifelong dream of exploring the stars, things go from bad to worse. High school senior Michael Gillen, living on Earth in the late twenty-fifth century, can’t wait to flee his wretched life. Will the stubborn, free-spirited, and idealistic young man wash out before HE SET OUT TO FIND HIMSELF.
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