2008-07-31 Not up to his other books

There's something not there in Hilldiggers that Asher's Cormac and Spatterjay books do have. I can't quite put my finger on it, but this book didn't grip me like his others.

The characters were largely not that gripping and the plot wasn't that involving even when the big action scenes got going. I also couldn't help feeling that the infodumps at the start of the book could have been done in a better way. It's still a good book, but it just doesn't get up there with Neal Asher's other works.