Name: The Skinner
ISBN: 9780765350480

Neal Asher

Three unusual travelers--Janer, a spy for the hornet Hive mind; Erlin, looking to find an old captain who can teach her about life; and the vengeful Sable Keech--arrive on the remote ocean planet of Spatterjay, braving the perils of the world's voracious wildlife as they pursue their individual quests, unaware that their paths are about to converge as the planet threatens to erupt into chaos. Reprint.

The Skinner

Анастасия Розова

3.25/5
Okay, so I kinda liked this book. It was my first real sci-fi novel and I enjoyed it. But it was far from perfect. 
Throughout the whole book I felt that it could've been shorter. Plus the enormous amount of characters didn't help one bit. It was hard to get attached to anyone or to even imagine what they looked like.
 I will say, though, that I liked Sniper a lot and I hope to see him again. He was quite funny and rather sarcastic, which I appreciate a lot. A lot. 
I didn't care much for the main three characters that were mentioned in the synopsis. They were kind of just there.
It is Neal's second work, though, as far as I know, so I might let all the disadvantages be. I just hope the trilogy gets better.

Grreg Gorey

Ian Betteridge

Peter Tving

Amy Troschinetz

Sunyi Dean

IS IMMORTALITY WORTH THE PRICE? The savage ocean planet of Spatterjay draws visitors with very different agendas. Erlin is immortal and seeks a reason to keep living. Janer hosts a hive mind, which paid him to find this planet. And Keech is an agent of Earth who’s been dead for seven hundred years – but still hunts a notorious criminal. On Spatterjay’s vast waterscapes, only the Old Captains risk the native life forms and their voracious appetites. However, they are now barely human. And somewhere out there Keech’s target – the Skinner – runs wild. Keech pursues the Skinner for atrocities committed in a centuries-past war, fought with the alien Prador. But one of these Prador is fast approaching Spatterjay to exterminate witnesses to his own war crimes. And he won’t spare its visitors.