This is by far the worst book I have ever read. The author seems to think the audience won't invest in the story if every character we're experiencing the disaster through isn't related, or in the main character's case divorced. If you do decide to read this book you can look forward to being constantly reminded of the plot every other sentence through forced and un-natural dialogue. These things I could almost forgive this if the plot wasn't as poor as the writing style. Character development seems to have been replaced by googling scientific facts about rocks and re-writing them in first person. There is no need for this to be constantly mentioned, we get it Mr Baxter, Geena is his ex-wife. I got that. Thanks. By the end of this book a chimp could have told you that the main characters ex-wife is called Geena. All in all this book is overly long (which I think Ste-Bax has mistaken for epic), dreadfully dull and packed with one dimentional characters you'd forget in an instant if the author didn't mention everyone and everything constantly. I highly recomend Greg Bear's Blood Music instead of this tripe.