Scrutator
Volume Three of The Well of Echoes
Ian Irving
Penguin
Paperback, 700 pages, R100
Reviewed by Ian Jamieson, 19 January 2005
Humanity is on the run. Somewhere on a planet far, far away the Node has
been destroyed, and all the human armament has been rendered useless. The
alien Lyrinx; huge, fast deadly; are sweeping across the planet, killing all
humans in their path. It would appear that Scrutator Xervish Flydd, sorry
ex-Scrutator, is humanity's only hope. (Why? I have no idea, but that's what
the blurb says. Obviously happens in Book Four.)
At about 700 pages the book is long but I gave up at page 250 - the amount
of detail almost renders the actual story irrelevant. It takes three chapters
just to cross the street!!
TOO MUCH WAFFLE!!
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