Dark Intelligence

I listened to the audio version of this book recently; it's ok but not great.  There are too many odd, gratuitous horror elements and too many plot contrivances.  I had somehow speculated about the eventual "big reveal" mystery in the story early on; so the story flow was a little boring for me.  And, the author kept changing the magic system to suit the story line so it got a little too deus est machina at times.  The space opera elements are not bad but, again, the super-AIs are not mysterious enough and their motivations are much too simple.

I prefer the zen koans of Dan Simmons' Hyperion or the mysterious, evil dark matter entities of Alastair Reynolds' known space books.

2  out of 5 Stars; there are too many better books to read.