For Lee, who has been romantically involved with Mal, this is a huge blow, and she spends the next several years bouncing from one obscure publication to the next, never amounting for much. Only Lee emerges back Mal is lost forever. They not only find strange and dangerous animals, but also somehow make it into their world. One such case leads them to the English countryside where they get more than they bargained for.
They scour the Internet for strange monster sightings and investigate some of them. Lee and Mal consider themselves cryptozoologists. I’d rank this story as one of the weaker works of this prolific author.
While other books (including Tchaikovsky’s own works like Children of Time) may get away with this, a narrative where the impact of a global catastrophe directly and very strongly affects the main characters, suffers from such one-dimensional protagonists. Some of the passages are fascinating and the entire concept is intriguing, but the protagonists fall flat and are largely unrelatable.
The Doors of Eden is a high concept book with great build-up, which still falls short due to the human element.
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