This is the second book in the series. The characters continue to evolve and the political machinations are fun to read about. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it is a great entry level book to the SciFi genre. ( )

Meh. Not as fun as the first. Set solely on the space station, it never really settles down to what the problem is, or why any of these characters are involved. Jake's assumed absolute command, for no particular reason and Pamela seems to want to hold that role which would be very inappropriate for the spymaster and of little benefit tot he rest of the CSS. Sissy is moping because she's not sure where she should be or how to get the possibly real Harmony to 'talk' to her. Instead there's a confusing new race, and a pair of estranged brothers one of whom runs the station, but has let various aspects tail into disrepair to save costs.

Something about the station just doesn't feel right, not properly imagined or set in place. I'm not sure why as quite a bit of detail is given, it's just that it always seems tacked on at a convenient point in the story rather than having always been present in the author's mind. The brother's apparently managed to hide various bits of technology, again at whim of plot rather than sense. Sissy goes out to investigate another new planet, and struggles even more with her breathing. There are traces form other races here too. You can feel the ideas the author's looking for, but it just doesn't quite work. ( )

Enigma is a hippie, outer space spiritual fantasy and locked room mystery with elements of romance. It struggles to be the sum of its disparate parts. It's not science fiction, not really, despite the space ship setting and alien characters.

"What am I without the search? What are we without the sacred rituals?" (Loc. 36) Enigma attempts to answer this question but fails to reach a satisfactory conclusion. ( )

I won this book from LibraryThing.

First off I never read the first book Harmony so I only have snatches of past history of Jake and Sissy. But seeing she is a priestess and he is the commander of the space station, I can already see problems with their relationship. Then of course a ship crashes into the station and the aliens are found dead. There are two stowaways that will help and hinder why the ship crashed. Plus Jake and Sissy are trying to negotiate a treaty between the CSS and Harmony the planet. All kinds of problems happen. Will everything work out in the end? ( )

I like this book, the plotline was good and there were a few twist and turns it in. The characters felt really interesting and they acted like real people which is something I like in a book. ( )