Book Review : "Le papillon des étoiles" (B. Werber)

This book (in English: "The butterfly of the stars") deals with a crazy idea of saving the humanity through the building of a special spaceship (actually a space-boat) and to send it as far as possible from the Earth in order to create a new place to live without repeating the errors humans have made on Earth.
The book is based on the sentence: "The last hope is to flee". Which is exactly what 144.000 chosen ones will do in order to start over on a planet after a trip planned to last over 1,000 years. Well you get it right: quite futuristic!

I have to recognize that I devoured other books from this author (among others the trilogy of "the ants"), but was not as captivated by this one. The story sounded of interest but not enough to get my attention completely. Well, I read it all. I enjoyed the way the author is detailing the errors made by humans on Earth. However it sounds like quite superficial throughout the book. The chapters are quite short (you like it or not...). Which does not make the reading easier in my view. I was definitely disappointed to see his way of dealing with the 1,250 years of travel (read here a few pages in the book). And the conclusion of finding the planet (with sneezing dinausors...) for saving the humanity, the last man and woman having issues make it impossible to procreate (especially as the woman dies). A replay of the origins with Adrian (the last man) creating a woman from a frozen embryo and marrow from his ribs (you see the connection ; )?)...

Well, no I was not sold at all. The beginning was quite promising, but the action (if ever existing) is way to quick and does not settle the reader in the story. A shame as the original idea was quite good. I am grading this book with a 4 out of 10. If you have time to waste, read it : )