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cboyko's review
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
justgj's review
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-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
hillshire's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
erica_reads_everything's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
pheebs1776's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
grolloby's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
hannahelizabooks's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
nswigert's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Jim seems to have forgotten that when you’re playing with tropes, you’re supposed to add twists to make it interesting and fresh. There were brief times when the book was funny, but the accidental sexism and, failure to maintain the pace and tension during action scenes made it a difficult read.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexism and Violence
Minor: Racism
x_naerwen_x's review
1.0
Sexist as fuck.
And he's attacking science in there.
"The end of the twentieth century and the dawn of the new millennium had seen something of a renaissance in the public awareness of the paranormal. Psychics, haunts, vampires–you name it. People still didn’t take them seriously, but all the things Science had promised us in filmstrips and black and white movies seen in grade school and junior high hadn’t come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn’t changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would. Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become somewhat tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of overweight, complacent Americans who had allowed the television to raise their children."
I understand that this is a fantasy book but, dude, do you really want to go there? Like you don't know how much we owe to science. Do you really want to go and attack it like that? Fucking outrageous. Anyway, Tim Minchin's already expressed all that I feel in relation to this issue (infinitely better than I'll ever be able to) in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw
And he's attacking science in there.
"The end of the twentieth century and the dawn of the new millennium had seen something of a renaissance in the public awareness of the paranormal. Psychics, haunts, vampires–you name it. People still didn’t take them seriously, but all the things Science had promised us in filmstrips and black and white movies seen in grade school and junior high hadn’t come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn’t changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would. Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become somewhat tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of overweight, complacent Americans who had allowed the television to raise their children."
I understand that this is a fantasy book but, dude, do you really want to go there? Like you don't know how much we owe to science. Do you really want to go and attack it like that? Fucking outrageous. Anyway, Tim Minchin's already expressed all that I feel in relation to this issue (infinitely better than I'll ever be able to) in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw