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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was in the middle for me. I started it feeling confused af but intrigued . The number of POVs kept increasing and I was annoyed although the writing was still good. I wanted to feel a little bit connected to any of the characters but this wasn't the case unfortunately. By the halfway point, The character work started appearing but it was late and tbh not enough at all for me to love any of them. The romance -ish made zero sense and was unnecessary (Joké as a whole tbh). I kept going for the plot alone at this point. Did the end/reasoning make sense? Yes but I am not that big of a fan of it. Also TW: gore which I didn't expect at this point in the book.
2.5 or maybe 2.75? I don't know but it's not a 3 I can tell you that.
The book started off with so much promise. It began an as a sci-fi murder mystery and then delved into a more creepy haunted house-esque murder mystery but in a spaceship. And then somewhere along the way, around the middle of the book, it began to drop off and I found myself increasingly annoyed with the ever shifting pacing and the constant build up. It started to feel like a bad club remix to a song. You know, where the beat is building up and you're waiting for it to drop but it goes on for way too long until finally when it does drop, it doesn't even end up being that good?
Thats what the climax to this book felt like. Finally all the questions I had were being answered but instead of me going "Heh, I figured as such." Or "Wow, what a twist!" I was more along the lines of "That's it? Why is this plot point coming in now when the book is almost over?" I was more disappointed than anything.
So overall, this book didn't feel like an entire waste of time but I was very disappointed with the ending and it's lead up to it.
The book started off with so much promise. It began an as a sci-fi murder mystery and then delved into a more creepy haunted house-esque murder mystery but in a spaceship. And then somewhere along the way, around the middle of the book, it began to drop off and I found myself increasingly annoyed with the ever shifting pacing and the constant build up. It started to feel like a bad club remix to a song. You know, where the beat is building up and you're waiting for it to drop but it goes on for way too long until finally when it does drop, it doesn't even end up being that good?
Thats what the climax to this book felt like. Finally all the questions I had were being answered but instead of me going "Heh, I figured as such." Or "Wow, what a twist!" I was more along the lines of "That's it? Why is this plot point coming in now when the book is almost over?" I was more disappointed than anything.
So overall, this book didn't feel like an entire waste of time but I was very disappointed with the ending and it's lead up to it.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Enjoyed the first 2/3rds of the book until the reveal, I didn't mind that we hadn't met the character yet as we knew there was another force at play , but the last 100 or so pages felt a bit chaotic, new characters showed up and were barely used, and all tension was lost
adventurous
challenging
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:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Setting was fun, but crucial worldbuilding came too late in the story - hyperspace aliens are real and can reproduce with humans - and are not explained in a way that made sense to the story. Multiple times I kept asking myself why is this happening? how does this progress the story? And the answer was it didn't.
New elements for the central plot were introduced HALFWAY into the book -- entirely new, completely un-foreshadowed -- which is just shoddy plot construction. Isn't is a mystery??
I've read another book with much the same set-up, so if you didn't like this one but felt the setting compelled you, you can try MUR LAFFERTY's SIX WAKES. I didn't like that one either, but I liked this one even less.
An actual recommendation if you, like me, enjoy mysteries on generational spaceships involved humans in cryosleep and a passenger waking up to a fucked up ship and a responsibility too heavy for them (at least at first) is:
DERIN EDALA's TIME TO ORBIT
New elements for the central plot were introduced HALFWAY into the book -- entirely new, completely un-foreshadowed -- which is just shoddy plot construction. Isn't is a mystery??
I've read another book with much the same set-up, so if you didn't like this one but felt the setting compelled you, you can try MUR LAFFERTY's SIX WAKES. I didn't like that one either, but I liked this one even less.
An actual recommendation if you, like me, enjoy mysteries on generational spaceships involved humans in cryosleep and a passenger waking up to a fucked up ship and a responsibility too heavy for them (at least at first) is:
DERIN EDALA's TIME TO ORBIT
3,5
Tras el éxito del lanzamiento de la trilogía 'Rosewater' ('Rosalera', en castellano, @leerunas), Tade Thompson ha publicado en estas semanas una novela independiente que es de lo más adictiva.
Esta es una de esas obras de ciencia ficción con un alto componente de thriller donde no puedes dejar de pasar páginas hasta resolver el misterio detrás de ello. La premisa es aparentemente sencilla: Michelle Campion despierta después de diez años en una nave llamada Ragtime. Aunque la IA debería estar al cargo de todos los asuntos, se encuentra con que una serie de robots de servicio han empezado a matar (de la manera más salvaje) a algunos de los pasajeros que dormían en otras de las unidades. La IA apenas realiza funciones básicas y todo se viene abajo. Michelle y otros personajes, cada uno de su padre y de su madre, tendrán que desentrañar el misterio en una nave cerrada al más puro estilo novela detectives.
Sin embargo, Tade añade una buena cantidad de detalles extra en forma de planetas y culturas cuyos intereses en la Ragtime varían en gran medida. De vez en cuando va incorporando historias de otros personajes que dan riqueza al desarrollo de lo que sucede en la nave. Todo ello da una imagen de profundidad al escenario necesario para no quedarse en una trama de misterio a secas.
Es una novela bastante distinta a 'Rosewater', por si alguien esperaba algo del estilo. Tiene una cosa en común, que es el hecho de incorporar muchos otros géneros a una historia detectivesca llena de sobresaltos. Cosas como toques de terror en diversas escenas dentro de la nave, o ciertos elementos que parecen sacados de una space opera clásica, además de temas de biología o los relacionados con la inteligencia artificial. Y, por supuesto, cierta ambientación en algunos momentos que recuerdan a los orígenes africanos de Thompson.
Una novela entretenida y recomendada si os gustan las historias de ciencia ficción en el espacio sin demasiadas tecnicidades pero con el componente de misterio con el que pasar páginas con facilidad.
Tras el éxito del lanzamiento de la trilogía 'Rosewater' ('Rosalera', en castellano, @leerunas), Tade Thompson ha publicado en estas semanas una novela independiente que es de lo más adictiva.
Esta es una de esas obras de ciencia ficción con un alto componente de thriller donde no puedes dejar de pasar páginas hasta resolver el misterio detrás de ello. La premisa es aparentemente sencilla: Michelle Campion despierta después de diez años en una nave llamada Ragtime. Aunque la IA debería estar al cargo de todos los asuntos, se encuentra con que una serie de robots de servicio han empezado a matar (de la manera más salvaje) a algunos de los pasajeros que dormían en otras de las unidades. La IA apenas realiza funciones básicas y todo se viene abajo. Michelle y otros personajes, cada uno de su padre y de su madre, tendrán que desentrañar el misterio en una nave cerrada al más puro estilo novela detectives.
Sin embargo, Tade añade una buena cantidad de detalles extra en forma de planetas y culturas cuyos intereses en la Ragtime varían en gran medida. De vez en cuando va incorporando historias de otros personajes que dan riqueza al desarrollo de lo que sucede en la nave. Todo ello da una imagen de profundidad al escenario necesario para no quedarse en una trama de misterio a secas.
Es una novela bastante distinta a 'Rosewater', por si alguien esperaba algo del estilo. Tiene una cosa en común, que es el hecho de incorporar muchos otros géneros a una historia detectivesca llena de sobresaltos. Cosas como toques de terror en diversas escenas dentro de la nave, o ciertos elementos que parecen sacados de una space opera clásica, además de temas de biología o los relacionados con la inteligencia artificial. Y, por supuesto, cierta ambientación en algunos momentos que recuerdan a los orígenes africanos de Thompson.
Una novela entretenida y recomendada si os gustan las historias de ciencia ficción en el espacio sin demasiadas tecnicidades pero con el componente de misterio con el que pasar páginas con facilidad.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated