“Crossfire” is sci-fi novel about colonisation and first contact. Kress
has a runaway imagination and really intriguing narrative ideas, but reading
this book at several points I had the feeling of being in front of a draft of a
novel rather than a real one.
In some
passages, the author chooses to summarise without letting us see what happens,
or to reduce complicated events to a sentence without explaining how the
characters could do that way. In other cases she anticipates what will happen,
thus eliminating suspense.
On the
other hand, instead, she inserts here and there meditations of the characters
that should characterize them better - but in my opinion that turns them into
stereotypes - and that should explain the reason for some of their actions, but
she does not succeed.
Considering their inconsistent behaviour you
have the impression of being in front of a bunch of madmen, who follow threads
of logic that completely escape the reader.
Perhaps
the author wanted to put too many ingredients in the cauldron, which should be
distributed at least in a trilogy to be well exploited.
In any
case, the story is pretty entertaining, but the escalation of non-sense, which
begins in the middle of the novel and culminates in an improbable ending,
prevents me from exceeding the third star.
Crossfire
on Amazon.com.
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