Reviews

Winter World by A.G. Riddle

oldplaneface's review

dark 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

3.5

reader2024's review

adventurous fast-paced

5.0

kimberlinay's review

adventurous hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

zordrac's review

adventurous fast-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

2.75

belthasar's review against another edition

"My only crime is being too awesome and inventing something cool.". Yeah right, I absolutely don't buy it, nothing good can come of such bad writing.

smoss's review

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

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

4.5

laurajaylive's review

5.0

I am really enjoying A.G. Riddle's series, The Long Winter. I am heading straight into book two, The Solar War. This book is high sci-fi, but understandable and easy to follow. Space, astronauts, alien objects, and a quickly deteriorating world set in ice! So fun!

petaashleigh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? N/A

1.5

jcurry447's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

badseedgirl's review

3.0

a Book entitled Winter World seems like an odd choice for a Summer reading book, but this is a carry over from the Here Comes The Sun challenge. And it really is a bit on the light side even if it is an apocalyptic subject matter. In fact I was looking everywhere to see if this book was a Young Adult read.

As anyone who has more than glanced at my book history can tell, I love YA books, especially well written ones. There have been times when I have found certain YA books much more challenging than adult books. I'm looking and glaring at you [b:Rotters|8572163|Rotters|Daniel Kraus|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320394085l/8572163._SX50_.jpg|13440919]. So calling a YA book is not disparaging, just a label to help future readers. But nope, this is a book made and meant for adults.

The tone and writing style of this book made it feel like it was made for a younger audience. My biggest pet peeve in this book was the short, choppy chapters made oh so popular by James Patterson. Tip to any aspiring author; Unless your book is 900 pages, there should not be triple digit chapters in your book. Now Mr. Riddle does not go quite that far in his writing style, but the feel is the same. Alternating between the two protagonists POV probably has something to do with this phenomena in this particular book, but I'm still not giving it a pass.

I'm not going to go into too much plot points in this review except to say I found the body count in this novel to be quite unrealistic.

Spoiler

No named character dies, or is even seriously hurt. except for the one ship, and they heroically sacrificed themselves while doing battle with the enemy craft.

And that might be ultimately why this book was not a complete success for me, and why I'm not sure if I will bother going forward with this series.

This was really a 2.5 star book for me, but alas Goodreads still does not allow for 1/2 stars... resigned sigh, for both this book and Goodreads star policy.