I guess it's one of those things, like that childhood bvacation/b-spot. When you revisit them, you can't recapture that summer. it's never as good as your memory made it out to be. It's been a while since I read The Night Bird. I guess that's what i get for b..../b That was the premise. Instead, Antares Dawn got sidetracked into a bnova/b, whole chapters that could've been reduced to a few sentences. It was just so bland. Hopefully McCollum got better as he wrote. flag abuse ...