Mindbridge

I loved this book, bit I am only a little surprised by the so-so ratings and reviews. It does feel gimmicky at times, almost disjointed. I have read the Forever War as well, and I can tell this book is from the same author. The ideas, imagination behind the plot is fantastic but the characters don't feel fleshed out, and the reasoning behind Jacque ability to communicate with the L'vrai is... interesting.

(By the way, I am wondering if the name of the aliens is a little tongue in cheek joke or not).

Why five stars would you ask? I started reading it early evening, went to bed thinking about the book, then read the rest of the short novel the morning after. Mindbridge is absolutely worth the few hours you are going to put into it, it is like other great (yes I said great) Sci-Fi novels in that Mindbridge is entertaining, uplifting, philosophical, full of sadness, sorrow, anger and rage, full of inventions, but short on character development. It is otherworldly, fun to read from beginning to end after you get past some of the writing issues.