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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
This long-ass book covers a whole lot of ground and nearly every sci-fi trope you've ever thought of or seen. I enjoyed it but it was unnecessarily long. It also has some ideas that you might not have heard or read before. While I found it a little drawn out at times, the storytelling is wonderful and characters are more complex than some other sci-fi. I would recommend it, although it is a bit of long book to get through
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
I loved this up until the very end, where it started to get a little far-fetched for my taste. Still a great book.
Just... So... Blah. Couldn't do it.
Misogynistic. Derivative. Blah.
Unfortunately for this book, I started reading it after Murderbot #5, a book I loved.
Misogynistic. Derivative. Blah.
Unfortunately for this book, I started reading it after Murderbot #5, a book I loved.
Picture, if you will, every single science fiction trope imaginable. Not only does this book use them all, but it doesn't even attempt originality within this (lack of) constraint. Don't get me wrong--the book is satisfactory overall, though its ending is yet another predictable sci-fi trope. I genuinely cared about the characters Paolini created, but after I had counted three blatant ripoffs of major sci-fi plot points, well-known to anyone who reads or watches sci-fi religiously, I stopped counting... and that was only a few dozen pages in. (At one point, I actually said to myself that there wasn't time travel, but there is FTL travel, which is handled scientifically appropriately re: the passage of time in the universe, meaning that there is, in fact, monodirectional time travel.)
This book is not bad--as I said above, I did actually care about most of the characters in this world--but it is unoriginal.
This book is not bad--as I said above, I did actually care about most of the characters in this world--but it is unoriginal.
Not in the mood, I read too much sci-fi back to back. I will come back to it later.
Stopped at Exeunt 1
Stopped at Exeunt 1
adventurous
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Dysphoria
Minor: Sexual content