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ataraxiara's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
lmagie's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Kinda distopian future (that we don’t get to really see or experience) featuring two “badass”, overpower full main characters/ live interests.
Being badass shouldn’t be synonym of “mean”, or “mouthy” or “wisecrack”.
For all the fight scenes, it wasn’t really clear what the real problem was or the objective for all those fights. Maybe it would have worked better as a comic book.
If you enjoy fight scenes and characters showing off their powers, you might like this book. But if you’re picky about plotting and character motivation, you might need to gather up some patience first.
About the audio, narrator might want to work on female voices, they came off as mocking. Otherwise it was great.
Being badass shouldn’t be synonym of “mean”, or “mouthy” or “wisecrack”.
For all the fight scenes, it wasn’t really clear what the real problem was or the objective for all those fights. Maybe it would have worked better as a comic book.
If you enjoy fight scenes and characters showing off their powers, you might like this book. But if you’re picky about plotting and character motivation, you might need to gather up some patience first.
About the audio, narrator might want to work on female voices, they came off as mocking. Otherwise it was great.
imaginary_sauropod's review against another edition
Note: I received a copy of this book through a giveaway on StoryGraph.
Could not get invested in the story. I tried really hard, but the characters do not portray any real depth, the “romance” was arbitrarily started off on the wrong foot (reminiscent of toxic 80’s yelling and arguing means love when it doesn’t even make sense with the plot), the lack of tension in the plot due to continual success, and I just don’t care. The world-building didn’t seem intriguing when it feels like it should, the FMC seemed like she was going to be sympathetic (when the MMC was not at all) but then ended up just as shallow as the MMC. I was hoping the plot would carry it at least, but found I couldn’t care once the action scene was over.
Could not get invested in the story. I tried really hard, but the characters do not portray any real depth, the “romance” was arbitrarily started off on the wrong foot (reminiscent of toxic 80’s yelling and arguing means love when it doesn’t even make sense with the plot), the lack of tension in the plot due to continual success, and I just don’t care. The world-building didn’t seem intriguing when it feels like it should, the FMC seemed like she was going to be sympathetic (when the MMC was not at all) but then ended up just as shallow as the MMC. I was hoping the plot would carry it at least, but found I couldn’t care once the action scene was over.
lindakat's review
adventurous
funny
hopeful
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? Yes
4.0
Was so excited to have won an audio copy of this book on storygraph! I never win anything. Loved it, it was legit laugh out loud funny despite the serious apocalyptic, alien invasion situation. The enemies to lovers was super cute too. Will for sure be reading the second.
bookishpanda97's review
adventurous
challenging
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Great book really love Rachel she is a bad ass.. love her powers and strength .. I was really betrayed by Micheal
ainsleym's review against another edition
fast-paced
3.0
Things I liked:
- The action scenes were really well done! It was easy to tell where all of the characters were, what they were doing, and what the physical spaces they were in looked like.
- The characters, while clearly very good fighters, still seemed very balanced and could suffer consequences, even if not very serious ones. I didn’t think that any of our main characters would die, but I didn’t know if they would succeed in their objectives for each fight.
- Rachel’s mix of magic and technology was super cool—I would’ve liked even more detail on how it worked, but I liked it overall.
- The second half of the book set up the Resistance and the larger world well. Unfortunately, that leads me to:
Things I didn’t like:
- The first half of the book. There was no sense of a larger scale or consequences until
they find Alaric and team up with him. - Although Jarek’s concept was interesting, he was irritating to read about for the majority of the book. Even though
he has this backstory about being unable to help people/improve the world which made him jaded , he didn’t act like that until the latter part of the book and I would’ve liked to see that earlier instead of only his wise-cracking, womanizer personality 🙄 - The humor was also overdone, in my opinion. When every single line was meant to be snarky, most of the jokes didn’t land. It also made Jarek sound more juvenile than I think he was intended to be.
It’s not groundbreaking and the first half does a massive disservice to the rest of the book, but overall this was a decently fun, fast-paced book with good concepts and a very readable writing style. Thank you to StoryGraph and Luke Mitchell for hosting the giveaway for this book!
electroclan17's review
4.5
I won this audiobook in a storygraph giveaway. This was a fun fantasy book.
dspacenine's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting and fresh story, and very entertaining. The author definitely has a way with words, so good.