/lit/ - Literature

I'm halfway through the second book in Peter F Hamilton's void trilogy.

Apparently I missed a couple of earlier books setting up the universe hundreds of years earlier, but it doesn't seem to have been much of a detriment. Some characters feel like they're probably cameos, but that's about it.

The way the story is split into the dreams which are a fantasy setting, and the current events in a scifi settings is weird. I haven't stopped to see what the split actually is, but it feels like it's probably 50% of the dreams, following one viewpoint character and a small cast, going deep into their characterizations and relationships for long chapters. Then for the other 50% of the book you're thrown back into the scifi side of the story, and whipped between half a dozen viewpoint characters in short vignettes without even chapters breaking them up.

It's like reading two separate books, and it's getting annoying. Especially because the two stories are barely connected at the moment, not even thematically. Half way into book 2 and it's just starting to maybe connect them with a character entering the void. Really hope this series goes somewhere interesting soon.