This book is very fascinating, endearing characters and has only one desire, to see where the adventure takes them.
Once started, you want to finish, grip is immediate.
I like the pace of play, which follows an alternating character with the encyclopedia (pity that certain extracts of the latter is of times, well placed and useful to the story, it is true) and especially "being "Special I do not want to reveal the identity. This way of paying him a conscience is both fantastic and terrible, I think.
Afterwards, when I read a book, I like it disconnects from reality and its problems and this book is, for me, too close to reality. Far be it from me to condone the ecological disaster that is played every day, but as a person engaged in environmental protection and animal, this book does not allow me to escape in a so some other world are only a replay of the sad reality.
The nod to the author's other books do not mind, having read them, but they contribute nothing to this book I think, and wonder how they are understood by people who do not read ...
I think this book is a good choice for those who do not know the works of B Werber and who want to start. For my part, I look out of impatience Volume 2 to see the further adventures of these characters, small & large.
