Brightness Reef, by David Brin: DNF
I still really like his earlier Uplift books, Startide Rising and The Uplift War. I tried the sequel trilogy when it first came out, but never got very far into it. Having recently re-read the earlier books, I decided to give the sequels another try.
If your setting is a planet secretly inhabited by refugees from five cool alien races plus humans, then readers, by which I mean me, are probably interested in the five cool alien races and how they’re alien. Readers, by which I mean me, will be disappointed and annoyed if your main alien POV characters are a group of alien kids who are enamored of human culture and uninterested in their own, mimic humans down to human slang and facial expressions, take all their references from human culture, and even have nicknames from human literature such as that timelessly cool book which will certainly be understandable and appealing to kid aliens on an alien planet thousands of years in the future, Huckleberry Finn.
ETA: LOL, the last time I used the "kids these days" tag was for a different book I DNF'd due to insufferability!
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If your setting is a planet secretly inhabited by refugees from five cool alien races plus humans, then readers, by which I mean me, are probably interested in the five cool alien races and how they’re alien. Readers, by which I mean me, will be disappointed and annoyed if your main alien POV characters are a group of alien kids who are enamored of human culture and uninterested in their own, mimic humans down to human slang and facial expressions, take all their references from human culture, and even have nicknames from human literature such as that timelessly cool book which will certainly be understandable and appealing to kid aliens on an alien planet thousands of years in the future, Huckleberry Finn.
ETA: LOL, the last time I used the "kids these days" tag was for a different book I DNF'd due to insufferability!
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