I wanted to love this. And the last quarter of the book, I think I did, because there they finally started getting into the socio-cultural context of the world they were on. But I felt nothing for the main characters - heck, we don't even know most of their names - because we know nothing about them as people. We only know how they react on this new planet, Eden, but that's all. It is really just a glorified scenery description with some observation of native sapiens.