Mass Effect: Ascension

I've started reading the new Mass Effect book.

I'm a big fan of Mass Effect and I enjoyed the first book, a prequel to the game called Mass Effect: Revelation, also written by Drew Karpyshyn who is also the lead writer of the game franchise which inspired the books, who wrote on other Bioware projects - such as the Baldur's Gate series and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic - and a couple of Star Wars titles focusing on Darth Bane which are also well worth reading, so I figured I'll probably enjoy this one too.

I'm only seven chapters in but so far it's good. It's set shortly after the first game in the series and also includes some characters from the first book and centres around the subversive, anti-alien black-ops group Cerberus.

As I'm not yet finished the story, I'm wondering if this will be a kind of prelude to the events of the yet to be released second game in the series as Revelation was to the first, but I guess I'll just have to keep reading to find out.

I'm no literary critic but Karpyshyn seems to me a worthy author if his previous works are anything to go by but I noticed something in this book that struck me as fairly odd. He seems to like adding a lot of inconsequential detail, to the point of whilst writing about the sound being made by a characters shoes as she walks down a corridor, detailing the exact type and shape of said shoes.

Now either he does this by accident because he's used to describing characters to artists for the games, or he's unleashing his fetsih for womens shoes in the only way he knows how...