This review covers the first two books of the Void trilogy (this one, and The Temporal Void: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...).

If I could give these books a 4.5 I would. They weren't quite perfect, but portions had be sitting up in bed raptly turning page after page.

Then I'd hit a portion not about the water walker and back out in the 'real' world and I'd sigh, my complaint the same as it typically is with Peter Hamilton's books: Bloat. Although I WILL say, it is markedly restrained in these books relative to his earlier books.

It's entirely possible, in fact, that at least this time around it was simply because I typically better like the 'fantasy' genre of writing that I was so engrossed in the Water walker's story and relatively Meh about the rest of it. In fact I'd go so far as to suggest this is likely.

Overall though, I do remember loving the books when I read them late last year/early this year, and then hotly anticipating the now released third book: The Evolutionary Void (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74...) which I haven't yet read, but aim to shortly, and will be doing a review of that book separately when I do. :)