Submitted by JohnT (Apr 03, 2008)

Good review. I'm about 50 pages from the end and am enjoying it immensely. One problem I have with it are the dream sequences, which, frankly, I've taken to skipping altogether. If they eventually tie in with the overall plot I'll go back and re-read them, but for now I'm not finding anything in the main (Commonwealth) portions of the novel that depend upon knowing the dream details, so I feel pretty good in ignoring them. I was able to guess some of the PS-JU connections with characters in DV - for example, the "Mellanie Roscarie" analog was pretty easy to figure out. ;) I'm pretty sure I figured out who Aaron was in the Commonwealth saga, but haven't been able to confirm it yet. I also pegged who the second dreamer was as their story had nothing to do with the larger going-ons of the main plot, solving it by negation. Hamilton is trying to throw off the audience by pronoun misuse, but I'm having none of that!