Well the book was overly slow and many many pages could have been deleted from the whole book.
I am kind of in the middle about how the Spiders were written as being people, the only difference was that they were spiders, everything else about them was talked as if they were people.
The "Finale" where the supposed big battle would take place between the Traders and the Spiders, Vs the Emergents was very sad, But Pham knew that that was when it would happpen. Over all I am glad that I read this book is was pretty well done, excpet for some parts that could have been taken out and whatnot.
The love that was placed in there was very low, which was good, the last book we read had randomness in it, and this was something that wasn't important but had to be put in there because it is human nature to love.
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The lack of explicit love scenes and romance was a definite improvement over the last book, though I can't say I'm too thrilled about space operas after this. The humanization of the Spiders was well done, in fact at first I couldn't even tell that they were another species since they were so similar to us in so many ways, they even have their own Princeton! It's a small universe after all LOL.
i'm glad i'm not the only one who thought the spiders were lame on ice. i would have been so much more into them if they acted even fainly alien. but not really. it was as if the author thought that weakly suggesting from time to time that they had 8 legs and babies on their backs was good enough... while they drive cars, watch TV, and have names like princeton and underhill. oh, ok.
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