✍️ Written by: Dennis E. Taylor
🏷️ Genre: Sci-fi
🗓️ Published: 05 September 2024
📄 Pages: 413
🧐 My rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 stars)
The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.
But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy. Sure, it could settle the Fermi Paradox for good (and what Bob doesn’t want to solve a mystery of the universe?). But it also reveals a threat to the galaxy greater than anything the Bobs could have imagined.
Just another average day in the Bobiverse.
I've always enjoyed the Bobiverse Series, and this book is no exception. However, I feel like there's too much going on as the Bobiverse expands and it's becoming quite confusing. As a result, this book -- although enjoyable -- felt disjointed. There's at least 4 major plot lines going on at this point, and numerous sub-plots. It's a lot.
I think I would have found this book more enjoyable if Taylor had focussed on just a couple of these plots, rather than trying to cram them all in.
Judging by how this book ends, there's going to be more books in the series, and I'll likely continue to read them, but I'd prefer the next one to be less convoluted.