Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (3.5 stars)

This Revelation Space series followed on in a very similar vein to the three body problem, but was less memorable. Maybe I just got burnt out on hard sci-fi. In this series there's a race of aliens crushing intelligent life in the galaxy that trips technological triggers by getting too advanced, as well as a plague ship that has consumed it's captain, and lots of relics of dead civilisations.

 I've waited too long to review these books so it's going to be a short review.

The frequent POV switching was quite annoying. Especially since they happened just with new paragraphs and without any headings.

 The Mademoiselle was cringe-worthy Dr. Evil overplayed bad guy, all it was missing was a white cat to stroke:

“Oh yes,” the Mademoiselle said. Then she snatched at the globe with her hand, crushing it between her fingers, rivulets of dust pouring between them. “Very much more.”

And this description of security controls made me laugh out loud. Sounds like something from a kids TV show:

“Access counter-insurgent protocols; lambda-plus severity, maximum battle-readiness concurrence and counter-check to be assumed, full autonomous denial-suppression, criticality-nine Armageddon defaults, red-one-alpha security-bypass, all Triumvirate privileges invoked at all levels; all non-Triumvirate privileges rescinded.” 

3.5 stars.