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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, 2)" by Adrian
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:53:36 -0500
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On 4/17/2025 2:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, 2)" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
>     https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Void-Final-Architecture-2/dp/0316705918/
> 
> Book number two of a three book space opera science fiction series.  I 
> read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Orbit 
> in 2022 that I bought new on Amazon.  I have NOT ordered the third book 
> in the series as I almost DNF'd (Did Not Finish) this book several 
> times.  I may change my mind about the third book but, who knows?
> 
> Earth was the first human planet attacked and destroyed by the 
> Architects, a moon sized race of beings that travel through unspace. 
> Billions of humans and aliens died on Earth, unable to get on one of the 
> thousands of overcrowded space ships evacuating from Earth.  Earth was 
> turned into a spiral object with the core ejected, typical of the 
> Architect's massive gravitational forces.  Earth was warned by a 
> survivor of another race destroyed by the Architects but the humans did 
> not believe it until too late.
> 
> The universe of the story is incredibly rich.  There are many alien 
> races and many planets, many colonies of all races.  The human race has 
> splintered into several groups that are at total odds with each other. 
> An alien race found the humans a hundred years before and kindly shared 
> their unspace technology with them.  Space Ships can navigate on known 
> paths through unspace but going off the known paths requires an 
> Intermediary Navigator (an Int), a rare human who has been surgically 
> and chemically modified to be like the first human Int, St. Xavienne. 
> Some of the best of the Ints like St. Xavienne can barely talk to the 
> Architects.
> 
> The book was not as good as the first book.  Maybe it was too wordy, not 
> enough editing.  Maybe there were too many protagonists.  Maybe the 
> author tried to make the Architects too sympathetic.  I have a bookcase 
> full of books that I have DNF'd, I do not want to add more so I stuck it 
> out.
> 
> The author has a website at:
>     https://adriantchaikovsky.com/
> 
> My rating:  4 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars (8,697 reviews)
> 
> Lynn

I explained the no DNF on reddit:
  
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1k1l3ig/eyes_of_the_void_the_final_architecture_2_by/

Lynn