Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon

Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Twenty-fourth-century Earth, where society is organized by intelligence and aptitude, and corporations rule. A decommissioned pilot (the wormhole kind) is sent to an alternate universe as a corporate emissary, while personally he just wants to find his wife and daughter, missing there with a lot of his memories.

Huh, okay. It's the first in a quadrology, which explains why it feels about 95% setup, though the series plot does eventually show up at the end. And this is a creative book – the alternate universe is a weird, whacky place, with exotic matter rivers and creepy alien overlords. And there are some complicated psychological layers rubbing up against each other.

But I never cared. Partly because of all the setup, and partly because there just aren't that many authors who can make me like this tired 'man who lost wife and child' routine. (Which isn't terribly toxic here, I should clarify, because the daughter's story is part of the book). But still, I kept picking this book up and putting it down, and it never connected with me where I live.

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