Review - Pushing Ice

I actually read Alastair Reynolds' Pushing Ice in a rather disjointed way -- the first two hundred pages or so in one chunk, and the last three hundred pages or so in another, more than a month later. So that might well colour my thoughts on it. Overall, I enjoyed it. Alastair Reynolds' writing is always easy to read, in my opinion, and his plots are interesting, without so much technobabble it becomes incomprehensible to me.

Character-wise, though, I'm not sure I really feel for them. They're human, with human failings and human virtues, and the way they're written is believable and interesting, but I don't think any of them really made a mark on me. I also felt that the pacing was kind of off -- speeding up dramatically at some points to get to the conclusion. Several things that seem important in terms of character and world-building are just skipped entirely, and barely alluded to afterwards.

Enjoyable, then, but not my favourite of Reynolds' books.