Wendy's Reviews > Spin

One night, the stars go out. The earth has been shielded, and it's soon discovered that time is passing much more rapidly outside the barrier. This means the death of the sun (and the end of the world) is fast approaching. The human race reacts with denial, hedonism, religiosity, despair, and clever scientific schemes which may offer some hope.

Loved the main idea but got tired of the slow pace, language, and characters and eventually skipped through to see how the story would play out.

Everything in the book was so overly dramatic; small mysteries and events are built up almost as much as the major stuff. There was an almost constant sense of foreboding about everything which just got wearing and felt out of balance. As a result, some things that should have been more dramatic (like the things involving the actual baddies in the book) just fell really flat. And I got really tired of the main character's obsession with his childhood crush. All the characters just seemed stagnant, actually.

(Incidentally, the book jacket sums up pretty much all of the scientific developments that occur, while the book plows along with the smaller scale effects on the main characters. If you just want the sci-fi plot, read the cover.)

Great setup, not much done with it. Could easily have been condensed into a much better book or short story.