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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
hopeful
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
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"I tell him that the Company is the past preying on the future -- that we are the future."
MAN! Leave it to Mr. VanderMeer to write the most bizarre and heartfelt eco-dystopian fiction. Just enough weirdness to be delightful and just enough plausible greed and short-sightedness to make you cringe a little at the parallels to our own world.
I feel like the narrative floundered a little on the tail end - I didn't enjoy this as much as Area X but the middle 50% of the book was a total delight. Sometimes reading a VanderMeer novel feels like trying to see everything out of the corner of your eye. This was definitely the case for the tail end of the book - just a bit too vague to really feel gripping.
MAN! Leave it to Mr. VanderMeer to write the most bizarre and heartfelt eco-dystopian fiction. Just enough weirdness to be delightful and just enough plausible greed and short-sightedness to make you cringe a little at the parallels to our own world.
I feel like the narrative floundered a little on the tail end - I didn't enjoy this as much as Area X but the middle 50% of the book was a total delight. Sometimes reading a VanderMeer novel feels like trying to see everything out of the corner of your eye. This was definitely the case for the tail end of the book - just a bit too vague to really feel gripping.
Throbs with emotion - a heady mix of nostalgia, heaviness, longing, wariness... and love and care and wonder despite it all. Rich with scifi themes of what it means to be a person, and the boundaries between life and creation and abomination. In turn horrific and wonderous descriptions of this dystopian biotech landscape. Fantastic and absorbing.
So, [a:N.K. Jemisin|2917917|N.K. Jemisin|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1438215930p2/2917917.jpg] has fond memories of [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1362814142p2/3389.jpg]'s The Dark Tower Series and decides to ghost write for [a:Jeff VanderMeer|33919|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1522640540p2/33919.jpg]. (Of course, it's always a good idea to throw in a little of [a:Terry Pratchett|1654|Terry Pratchett|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1235562205p2/1654.jpg]'s Discworld Series for the world's origin story as well.)
Borne was moderately engaging (I wanted to see where it went)...and I finished it. But if you read my review of VanderMeer's [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403941587s/17934530.jpg|24946895], you'll get an inkling of how I felt for much of this one as well.
Anyway, three stars is better than two, right?
Borne was moderately engaging (I wanted to see where it went)...and I finished it. But if you read my review of VanderMeer's [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403941587s/17934530.jpg|24946895], you'll get an inkling of how I felt for much of this one as well.
Anyway, three stars is better than two, right?
dark
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
No logré que me enganchara. Hubo momentos súper interesantes donde criaturas gigantes luchaban entre sí. Había bio-punk y también está el asunto de la extraña criatura Borne. Pero la narración es plana, los personajes no tienen objetivos claros en la historia, solo son testigos, al menos hasta el punto donde decidí que no había un plot y dejé de leer.
Y sabís qué, me pasó lo mismo con la novela [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403941587s/17934530.jpg|24946895], leí un buen trecho y cuek, no seguí leyendo. Me había olvidado del nombre del autor. Incluso viene una película de ese libro y me había olvidado por completo. ¿No debe ser tan malo, porque le harán una peli, cierto? Seguro que yo soy el problema, o la película resuelve el problema del libro.
Seguro que ambas historias iban a alguna parte, pero la técnica de buscar el plot mientras se escribe la obra, no me agrada. Así que no creo que vuelva a leer nada más del autor, solo porque no quiero perder más tiempo esperando que la historia encuntre su norte.
Y sabís qué, me pasó lo mismo con la novela [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)|Jeff VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403941587s/17934530.jpg|24946895], leí un buen trecho y cuek, no seguí leyendo. Me había olvidado del nombre del autor. Incluso viene una película de ese libro y me había olvidado por completo. ¿No debe ser tan malo, porque le harán una peli, cierto? Seguro que yo soy el problema, o la película resuelve el problema del libro.
Seguro que ambas historias iban a alguna parte, pero la técnica de buscar el plot mientras se escribe la obra, no me agrada. Así que no creo que vuelva a leer nada más del autor, solo porque no quiero perder más tiempo esperando que la historia encuntre su norte.