This was painful to read, poorly written, rambling, and largely uninteresting.The main characters keep changing as they are reincarnated, so even character development is poor. It's a bogus world history of religious and race wars, injustice, etc, with characters you don't care about. It was an interesting premise, very poorly written.It's a shame that the editor didn't have the balls to tell the author try again. No way would this have ever been published if it had been his first book. Robinson has done some awesome writing, and I'm a fan, but this should never have been published.This is NOT science fiction. It's crap.