This review covers both this book and it's prequel, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45....

I read this last year, so can't really offer a hugely indepth review.

I can however say that it was the first scifi I had picked up in a fairly long while; picked it up on nothing more than a whim during a time where I'd exhausted my list of 'Things I Want to Read'.

It's long, it's weighty, and the reality is that Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained should be considered as one ginormous book rather than a series. At around 2,000 pages it really is pretty big. However, if you managed to consume Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, you'll have no troubles.

My memory of the book(s) now are such that I can recall that I liked it. I remember thinking that there was certainly a large amount of bloat to the books, and that the core narrative could without a doubt have been cut, cut, cut and became a much tighter experience all around... But for all that, there was plenty of action and excitement to be had as well.

Worth a read if you're not afraid of long (well, huge) books.