A review by chrisbiss
Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.
This just wasn't for me, which is a shame because I was really looking forward to it. I struggled to separate the characters, who all had the same voice, and close to halfway through I realised that I was bored of reading very long sentences with no variation in rhythm or tone of the language. We spend a lot of time pondering the distant beauty of the globe as the station makes its endless loops but it all just becomes a little repetitive and flat for my tastes. I didn't get any sense that the next 100+ pages were going to be any different.

Maybe the slow, only fractionally-changing repetition is the point, but it wasn't for me.