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megang815's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
elllljayyyy's review
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
ebal's review against another edition
1.0
Nope !
Writing is bad , story is …. whatever is the most appropriate word here. It is damp down to prolong the book with some unnecessary background stories. I wish it could have a better editor as the main idea seemed interesting.
Writing is bad , story is …. whatever is the most appropriate word here. It is damp down to prolong the book with some unnecessary background stories. I wish it could have a better editor as the main idea seemed interesting.
googles's review
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
itisnatal's review
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
theglowcloud's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
hank's review
4.0
This was not a perfect book, few are but was a fun/scary read regardless. It almost felt like a video game, Sean kept acquiring random objects to use in his quest, there were many rooms and corridoors and monsters in all of them, seemingly. The "children" were way creeepy, the "quest" was both silly and reasonable at the same time and the two argonauts to his Jason were well done.
I enjoyed it! I get complaints I have read but I loved the trifecta of Lantern Eyes, Indigo and Sean. I loved the ship jammed with monsters and as usual, I loved
I enjoyed it! I get complaints I have read but I loved the trifecta of Lantern Eyes, Indigo and Sean. I loved the ship jammed with monsters and as usual, I loved
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the happy endinglouloureadsbooks's review
5.0
4.5 stars, I really enjoyed this. It was an action with a bit of horror (the right amount for me) adventure in space, which is right up my street.
I'm not sure if this actually counts as traditional Sci-fi but that's cos I'm not an afficionado. This was blissfully and delightfully free of the usually very, very detailed explanations in Sci-fi of HOW absolutely everything works, which I don't give a toss about, it bores me and gets in the way of the action. I just want adventures in space with characters I want to make it to the end and this was an adventure in space with characters whose survival I became very invested in by the end.
I'm not normally a fan of tangents but Sean's trips down memory lane worked really well. I liked how they related to what was actually happening to him in the present as well as giving an insight into his history. I enjoyed his Imp as well!
There was a part which confused me really near the end that seemed to refer to something as being 5,000 years old when the ship was 1,000 years old BUT I was reading waaay past my bedtime so perhaps just my tired brain/eyes and of course I can't find it now. Didn't spoil it, I just wonder.
More please!
I'm not sure if this actually counts as traditional Sci-fi but that's cos I'm not an afficionado. This was blissfully and delightfully free of the usually very, very detailed explanations in Sci-fi of HOW absolutely everything works, which I don't give a toss about, it bores me and gets in the way of the action. I just want adventures in space with characters I want to make it to the end and this was an adventure in space with characters whose survival I became very invested in by the end.
I'm not normally a fan of tangents but Sean's trips down memory lane worked really well. I liked how they related to what was actually happening to him in the present as well as giving an insight into his history. I enjoyed his Imp as well!
There was a part which confused me really near the end that seemed to refer to something as being 5,000 years old when the ship was 1,000 years old BUT I was reading waaay past my bedtime so perhaps just my tired brain/eyes and of course I can't find it now. Didn't spoil it, I just wonder.
More please!
kaitlinbisneau's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
everlaerian's review
1.0
Originally: A game of space cat and mouse
Now: The Lord of the Ring space edition where your quest is to reach the Philosophers's Stone - 1/5
I am starting to appreciate being in the minority. I really am.
(From the synopsis)
The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun (ridiiculously boring), fast paced (just because every room, act, coffee break had its own chapter, it does not mean it's fast paced!!!), seat-of-your-pants (200+ pages I was waiting for something to happen because there's a lot of blah blah blah and stalkers) read full of treasure hunts (there was only one hunt. One hunt), traps (not really traps but okay..), deadly enemies (okay I'll give you this one - they stopped being deadly at some point), betrayal ("shock"), secrets (don't waste your time), mysterious aliens (let's circle back to the "deadly enemy" bit. Trust me - Not so mysterious), adventure and action (you're joking right? Run for yoir life action sure) as the story races (so boring and forever taking) to the find the secret to Immortality (this is exactly how it is written,).
I didn't find this interesting at all. Some people will enjoy, others like me won't. It just felt repetitive. I think this would have been excellent if it were shorter instead of 600 pages.
If you know of Firefly, it feels very reminiscent of it. (Won't spoil it.) But if this was inspired by Firefly (and others), you could have put some work into it. Especially since a better part of it reminded me of Serenity (the truces, the reveals and the end.)
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POV
1st person narration are very hit or miss with me. Sean is our only narrator and boy is he full of himself. He is always boasting something when he's not running away. The first chapter gave away a lot as to who he is: Sean is an overly confident person that believes they are the shit "I'm the best pilot around. I'm the best at translating languages especially these ones."
What irked me was how he was having a conversation with the reader almost. As if justifying his actions and confidence. And it's so repetitive.
His narrative was all over the place for a better part of the book. I dont enjoy chapters were you are in the present, then it cuts to the past and back to the present. I like talking about The Gentleman Bastards for certain points because I believe in the first novel "The Lies of Locke Lamora" was beautifully written with a past chapter telling the reader of a time Locke did something with his siblings and then followed by the next chapter having a situation that mirrors the past one with the lessons he had learned in the past.
Lastly the chapters are short which I do enjoy from time to time. Unfortunately it wasn't something I particularly enjoyed here. Short chapters are fantastic if you don't want lengthy read. In TIT the chapters are cut to seemingly every action or corridor. To better explain what I mean you have a house with 6 rooms, you're trying to get from the entrance to the patio in the back. Your chapters would be as followed:
1. Entrance door looking at the corridor where the coat hangers shadow is too scary.
2. Use the living room to cross into the dining room.
3. Dining room - Attack of the left over foods from breakfast.
4 .Eat food; mmm reminds me of my pet deer.
5. Run to the bedroom cause you thought you could hide under the bed.
6. Enter the bathroom and find supplies.
7. Enter other bedroom but you made a mistake and need to confront the hall shadows.
8. Baracade portion of the hall but shadows are everywhere.
9. Spiderman walk to the kitchen.
10. Open pantry; What am I doing???!!!
11. Daydream in pantry.
12. Circle kitchen trying to come up with a plan.
13. Finally go to the patio.
14. Oh wait there is a cat in the way now I must relive a past memory.
15. I guess I can go for the patio door now.
I shit you not, every action had a chapter. I wasn't moving forward fast enough. I think my brain passed out..
Bigger irks (that I remember)
- Towards the end, there is a dream sequence - utterly annoying and frustrating (to me.)
- The last page - Seriously? We're going down the predictable path here? A path overly used by multiple novels? (I am not going to spoil it.) = not a plot twist just the facepalm of "originality" striking me.
- People seem to love this book. I found it stripped of any sustenance and worldbuilding. Instead it was a hamster wheel pushing an overextended plot of one person just talking, running and reminiscing about his old life 40% of the time (BORING). I can argue that first person POVs come with the disclaimer that they may be overly exaggerated but I legit don't care here.
- Social political aspect - Bare minimum. It's the usual amount you get when two powers are at each other's throats and you get an impartial party member in the middle who will become the voice of reason.
- Characters weren't layered. The reveals didn't do anything to me. Sure they were flawed but it wasn't as deep as you may think.
- Sean is a thief. No thievery happens in this book. Next.
- Apparently he has a golden heart. Robin Hood of space? Only he got caught.
- EMP goes off and the tablet (that is right beside the EMP) still works. I need an explanation here. The math just doesn't work.
- Chapter name - DONT GIVE AWAY THE PUNCHLINE IN THE CHAPTER TITLE!! Why would you give away the plot or secrets in the chapter title? I'm flabbergasted by this!! I'd put a picture but perhaps someone will want to read this book.
- All three main characters are connected through the past.
Language
Sean is a linguist. He speaks a few languages fluently, others he can get around them. I liked that. And he's pretty adept at learning a new language. Can't get angry because once you know a few languages you tend to learn patterns. I have a but!
Ameng seems to be a central language in this universe. The ship's inhabitants understand Ameng. The signs on the ship are in Ameng. The videos Sean listens to are in Ameng. Yet no words in the book show this foreign language. Sean simply translates it and tells you the read what it says. Two occasions truly peeved me.
The first was when they were reading the room numbers. Room 1, room 2 room 3, etc. All this was in Ameng. No foreign or alien language was shown much phonetically described. The reader only was told the language was foreign and what it meant.
The second was when he was telling someone to say 'no' in Ameng. "Just remember this word: no." Couldn't have at least created a word for no? Sean repeated it like three times (no). At that point I was curious if Ameng was in fact English?! (Its too intelligent of a concept I think.)
Got problems with the title. It was only alluding to the fact that Sean was a thief and he was sent to find the Philosophers's Stone. He wasn't committing the act in any way.
I'll be honest, I wanted to DNF in the early chapters. I didn't connect with anything. I may have continued because I wanted to know if it got better. If the action packed running away.
Now: The Lord of the Ring space edition where your quest is to reach the Philosophers's Stone - 1/5
I am starting to appreciate being in the minority. I really am.
(From the synopsis)
The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun (ridiiculously boring), fast paced (just because every room, act, coffee break had its own chapter, it does not mean it's fast paced!!!), seat-of-your-pants (200+ pages I was waiting for something to happen because there's a lot of blah blah blah and stalkers) read full of treasure hunts (there was only one hunt. One hunt), traps (not really traps but okay..), deadly enemies (okay I'll give you this one - they stopped being deadly at some point), betrayal ("shock"), secrets (don't waste your time), mysterious aliens (let's circle back to the "deadly enemy" bit. Trust me - Not so mysterious), adventure and action (you're joking right? Run for yoir life action sure) as the story races (so boring and forever taking) to the find the secret to Immortality (this is exactly how it is written,).
I didn't find this interesting at all. Some people will enjoy, others like me won't. It just felt repetitive. I think this would have been excellent if it were shorter instead of 600 pages.
If you know of Firefly, it feels very reminiscent of it. (Won't spoil it.) But if this was inspired by Firefly (and others), you could have put some work into it. Especially since a better part of it reminded me of Serenity (the truces, the reveals and the end.)
#theimmortalitythief #taranhunt #scifibooks #fictionbooks #speculativefiction #goldsborogsff #bookreader #bookstagramcanada #bookrecommendation #book #bookcollector #booklover #bookwormsofinstagram #bookcommunity #reader #readersofinstagram
POV
1st person narration are very hit or miss with me. Sean is our only narrator and boy is he full of himself. He is always boasting something when he's not running away. The first chapter gave away a lot as to who he is: Sean is an overly confident person that believes they are the shit "I'm the best pilot around. I'm the best at translating languages especially these ones."
What irked me was how he was having a conversation with the reader almost. As if justifying his actions and confidence. And it's so repetitive.
His narrative was all over the place for a better part of the book. I dont enjoy chapters were you are in the present, then it cuts to the past and back to the present. I like talking about The Gentleman Bastards for certain points because I believe in the first novel "The Lies of Locke Lamora" was beautifully written with a past chapter telling the reader of a time Locke did something with his siblings and then followed by the next chapter having a situation that mirrors the past one with the lessons he had learned in the past.
Lastly the chapters are short which I do enjoy from time to time. Unfortunately it wasn't something I particularly enjoyed here. Short chapters are fantastic if you don't want lengthy read. In TIT the chapters are cut to seemingly every action or corridor. To better explain what I mean you have a house with 6 rooms, you're trying to get from the entrance to the patio in the back. Your chapters would be as followed:
1. Entrance door looking at the corridor where the coat hangers shadow is too scary.
2. Use the living room to cross into the dining room.
3. Dining room - Attack of the left over foods from breakfast.
4 .Eat food; mmm reminds me of my pet deer.
5. Run to the bedroom cause you thought you could hide under the bed.
6. Enter the bathroom and find supplies.
7. Enter other bedroom but you made a mistake and need to confront the hall shadows.
8. Baracade portion of the hall but shadows are everywhere.
9. Spiderman walk to the kitchen.
10. Open pantry; What am I doing???!!!
11. Daydream in pantry.
12. Circle kitchen trying to come up with a plan.
13. Finally go to the patio.
14. Oh wait there is a cat in the way now I must relive a past memory.
15. I guess I can go for the patio door now.
I shit you not, every action had a chapter. I wasn't moving forward fast enough. I think my brain passed out..
Bigger irks (that I remember)
- Towards the end, there is a dream sequence - utterly annoying and frustrating (to me.)
- The last page - Seriously? We're going down the predictable path here? A path overly used by multiple novels? (I am not going to spoil it.) = not a plot twist just the facepalm of "originality" striking me.
- People seem to love this book. I found it stripped of any sustenance and worldbuilding. Instead it was a hamster wheel pushing an overextended plot of one person just talking, running and reminiscing about his old life 40% of the time (BORING). I can argue that first person POVs come with the disclaimer that they may be overly exaggerated but I legit don't care here.
- Social political aspect - Bare minimum. It's the usual amount you get when two powers are at each other's throats and you get an impartial party member in the middle who will become the voice of reason.
- Characters weren't layered. The reveals didn't do anything to me. Sure they were flawed but it wasn't as deep as you may think.
- Sean is a thief. No thievery happens in this book. Next.
- Apparently he has a golden heart. Robin Hood of space? Only he got caught.
- EMP goes off and the tablet (that is right beside the EMP) still works. I need an explanation here. The math just doesn't work.
- Chapter name - DONT GIVE AWAY THE PUNCHLINE IN THE CHAPTER TITLE!! Why would you give away the plot or secrets in the chapter title? I'm flabbergasted by this!! I'd put a picture but perhaps someone will want to read this book.
- All three main characters are connected through the past.
Language
Sean is a linguist. He speaks a few languages fluently, others he can get around them. I liked that. And he's pretty adept at learning a new language. Can't get angry because once you know a few languages you tend to learn patterns. I have a but!
Ameng seems to be a central language in this universe. The ship's inhabitants understand Ameng. The signs on the ship are in Ameng. The videos Sean listens to are in Ameng. Yet no words in the book show this foreign language. Sean simply translates it and tells you the read what it says. Two occasions truly peeved me.
The first was when they were reading the room numbers. Room 1, room 2 room 3, etc. All this was in Ameng. No foreign or alien language was shown much phonetically described. The reader only was told the language was foreign and what it meant.
The second was when he was telling someone to say 'no' in Ameng. "Just remember this word: no." Couldn't have at least created a word for no? Sean repeated it like three times (no). At that point I was curious if Ameng was in fact English?! (Its too intelligent of a concept I think.)
Got problems with the title. It was only alluding to the fact that Sean was a thief and he was sent to find the Philosophers's Stone. He wasn't committing the act in any way.
I'll be honest, I wanted to DNF in the early chapters. I didn't connect with anything. I may have continued because I wanted to know if it got better. If the action packed running away.