" I have heard a lot of glowing reviews for Mr. Anderson's works, and figured I would start with the Saga of Seven Suns anthology since the premise was right up my SciFi alley. I was severely disappointed. While the basis of the stories was interesting and held great promise, the excruciating details of people, conversations and relationships turned me off. When there was action to be had, it was limited to very little writings, and had none of the depth as in the rest of the book. I 'read' this as an audiobook, and if you didn't pay attention at the right time (even for a second or two), you would completely miss the action sequences. However, you could easily fast forward a few chapters and still get all the details needed for the many and ever growing cast of characters. Why invest in character and relation development (or rather, pages upon pages of descriptive text), only to have that character killed off? I painstakingly suffered through 5 of the books, hoping each would get better, but they got worse. If I had to read the pages instead of listening to the audiobook, I would have probably thrown it away. "
— Faz, 1/14/2014