The Forever Watch by David Ramirez

 

I haven’t been so engrossed in a Sci-Fi story since The HeeChee Saga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee).

This is an action tale with believable transformers.

The pace is fast,

              with developments all the way through the end.
The writing is tight.!
  Few excess words -- no noticeable filler sections, paragraphs, sentences, or clauses.
It is not effusive; it achieves an harmonious balance between plot, character, description, and dialogue.

The ideas titillate the imagination.

 

The author, and I want to say She, because the protagonist is a woman, and a balanced half of the main characters are women.  She is totally believable.!

Yes, the author achieved suspension of my disbelief.

And yet the author is a recently married (to a woman) Filipino male.
 

The story takes place on a space ship of Star Wars size, like a small moon.

The crew, of maybe a million, is halfway through a thousand year voyage to a new star system.

Our cast of protagonists is a group of mid-level managers.

There have been many mysteries, over recent time in Hana’s life.  She joins with a tough cop to find answers.

She finds many answers and many more questions.

Her telekinesis and Psi abilities become radically developed with the aid of the “Builder’s” left over communication networks.

 

Many doors are left open as the story book closes.

There is plenty of room to explore the remaining questions if there is some sort of continuation of the millennial voyage of “Noah”.

 

If I were a movie or TV producer, I’d have a dozen writers going on this one.

Although I’d just be happy with a sequel book.
The author is innovative and had far more interesting ideas than one book could do justice to.
MORE.!  MORE.