Reviews - The Family Experiment

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The Family Experiment

John Marrs

4.08 AVERAGE

beth_sandyeggo's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Interesting plot and concept. I've not read the other books.
I didn't like any of the characters. It was confusing to separate the couples and who, what, where. By the time my brain could keep them straight, I didn't really care anymore.

xoamanda's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

moodyjune's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

macyq's review against another edition

3.0

tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aurora_rose's review against another edition

4.0

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

faith2teach's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Awakening Entertainment brings you a new reality show. In the Metaverse, you can have a child. The child will quickly grow in nine month from birth to 18 years old. In that time, contestants will be challenged with raising a child on television. Told from multiple POV, characters learn that your past will catch up with you.

ajkstoff's review against another edition

2.0

This book was an interesting story wasted on lackluster writing, preventing me from getting into it at all.

There was no emotion in the writing, and the characters were very dull and there were so many of them that they were hard to tell apart since they didn’t have very fleshed-out personalities.

The way information was held back and then revealed also felt really artificial and forced to me. In one chapter the author would just decide to end on a cliffhanger and then in a later chapter he would just pick up that thought and reveal the information that had been withheld previously. It’s kind of hard to describe, but it felt like the author was in control of when stuff was revealed, rather than the characters figuring it out for themselves. It just didn’t feel like a natural progression of twists and turns. I did also find the “twists” to be fairly predictable, except for a couple of small things, and there were a couple of plot holes, too.

I did enjoy the concept of the show and the world, I just wish it had been better-executed.