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aucencia's review
3.0
Objectively it should be 4 points. However for me it just don't click. More polishing needed.
Received this free copy in exchange for an honest review,so here's the review:
Normally I don't read short stories, because in short stories authors tend to hurry to the (usually twisted) end, in which case, forget the character building and other details. In this book, it's always about personal experience (a lot of POV), so much details to build a strange world, sometimes it give you a sensual and squishy feeling (a lot of goo).
On the other hand, the characters in each story seemed share a same face. They talk in familiar unisex voice, make similar choice on each turn. I'm not saying this is not good, but maybe I am expecting more division in character building as variety as the world building.
Oh, about all kinds of Obsidian Worlds. All of them are nicely, carefully imagined, but yeah...because all of short stories, I start to think if the world is just built for world building sake, if the 'meat part' of the content is the world building rather then the story telling. I found myself not caring what happened in some of the stories; maybe that's why I felt that many of the protagonists were too similar to each others.
The Man with Two Legs is my personal favorite, that's ultimate post-apocalypse Shojo romance.
Received this free copy in exchange for an honest review,so here's the review:
Normally I don't read short stories, because in short stories authors tend to hurry to the (usually twisted) end, in which case, forget the character building and other details. In this book, it's always about personal experience (a lot of POV), so much details to build a strange world, sometimes it give you a sensual and squishy feeling (a lot of goo).
On the other hand, the characters in each story seemed share a same face. They talk in familiar unisex voice, make similar choice on each turn. I'm not saying this is not good, but maybe I am expecting more division in character building as variety as the world building.
Oh, about all kinds of Obsidian Worlds. All of them are nicely, carefully imagined, but yeah...because all of short stories, I start to think if the world is just built for world building sake, if the 'meat part' of the content is the world building rather then the story telling. I found myself not caring what happened in some of the stories; maybe that's why I felt that many of the protagonists were too similar to each others.
The Man with Two Legs is my personal favorite, that's ultimate post-apocalypse Shojo romance.
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