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Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

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rachel_sherck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I love and admire the author from her video essays. I’ve been looking forward to reading her books, and I really enjoyed this one. It has 2000s nostalgia but not too much, and a very unique and nuanced take on first contact and a truly alien species.

The author is creative and so smart, which shines in the way she put together the complex story and the plot twists.

I struggled at times with the writing on the line level. The audiobook may have helped or may have hindered here, I’m not sure. The actor did a good job making some cumbersome language feel emotional and tonal, but if I’d been reading with my eyes, maybe I could have sped through some of those phrases without letting them trip me up. I don’t know, this book is traditionally published so I’m sure I’m wrong, but it’s almost like it missed its copy edit.

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purplatypus's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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bean_7088's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Wow...
Like wow.
First, the narrator was incredible. It's always a hit or miss with many for audio books but Stephanie Willis was amazing.

I've known about Axiom for a whole since I do follow Lindsay Ellis, but I've always felt very indifferent to YouTuber authors, no matter how much I like their content. But since I've been reading again I thought I'd give it a go. Really I only read this because there were no holds on it 🤣
I was surprised by how tense it was, I loved the twists. Did I roll my eyes at some of the alien relationship? Yes. Did I still love it? Also yes.
It's currently almost 5am here, and I couldn't stop listening.

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beccaand's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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hanz's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

The beginning of this book is so slow and the pacing is a little all over the place. I think it shouldn't have least 100 pages shorter. Haven't read many first contact stories, but I found that I didn't really care about the characters or what was happening.

The books also had some weird info dumping parts where a character would repeat something that happened in the previous couple of chapters in very stilted dialogue. This didn't happen that often, but it was enough that I noticed it.

Otherwise it's very readable and picks up in the second half, but not enough for me to continue with the series.

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