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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
This book was something. It took me longer than I had hoped to finish it. The writing style was definitely one of Keanu Reeves. You could hear him say some of the words as you read them in his staccato like speaking pattern.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
2.14
Quality of Writing: 7/10
Pacing: 6/10
Plot Development: 4/10
Characters: 4/10
Enjoyment: 1/10
Ease of Reading: 3/10
Ending: 5/10
Quality of Writing: 7/10
Pacing: 6/10
Plot Development: 4/10
Characters: 4/10
Enjoyment: 1/10
Ease of Reading: 3/10
Ending: 5/10
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Truly delightful and fun ride.
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars
0_o wha–what? Did I just read?
*Disclaimer, I read this book with no knowledge of the comic series BZRKR, which this story is based on. However, I did learn before reading that while this shares characters & some plot from the comics, is its own continuity and tone.*
This book was pretty unique as it takes a blockbuster heavy-scifi, action-thriller, light-fantasy genre and flips into literary fiction. Imagine an over the top premise….like Fast & the Furious or Transformers or even Keeanu’s previous own work like John Wick. Then instead of talking about the story you’d expect; instead of feeding you the explosions, you read a side quest in which the main characters all go to therapy. Yeah, it’s like a self help philosophy book & a Michael Bay film had a baby. Oh but it’s also…. Weird (in a good way). Because the story is about immortality and eggs and pigs andimmortal pigs that hatch from eggs oh and also cults and living things that shouldn’t be alive like mops and planks of wood and wires and forks
Then there’s the writing style. Different. Difficult at first but then kind of addictive. I think the book gets easier to read as you read it and that’s because you learn to read the style but also probably because the author slowly mainstreams the style. The first few chapters were really hard, lots of pausing and looking up words…but eventually you start to learn the meanings of the words without having to look it up. Miéville does a great job of using context clues for the readers advantage.
There’s a part of me that wants to rate this book 5 stars because it will stick with me for a very long time and it was experimental and refreshing from the conventional or even linear methods of storytelling. There’s a part of me that wants to rate this book 2 stars because I think a lot of did not satisfy. Particularly the beginning was slow, and the end was rushed. The beginning at times was boring and as I previously said, difficult. The ending was inconclusive and confusing and left some unfinished plot (unanswered questions since this book is kind of a mystery to puzzle together I expected to figure it all out at the end). But as I right this review I’m thinking, perhaps that was the point and intentional. To be open-ended. But then I go back to thinking there could have been a better build up to the reveals.
Idk it was a weird book. I think I am settling at 3 stars. Which that in itself is weird to give such an average rating to such an (un-average) original novel.
0_o wha–what? Did I just read?
*Disclaimer, I read this book with no knowledge of the comic series BZRKR, which this story is based on. However, I did learn before reading that while this shares characters & some plot from the comics, is its own continuity and tone.*
This book was pretty unique as it takes a blockbuster heavy-scifi, action-thriller, light-fantasy genre and flips into literary fiction. Imagine an over the top premise….like Fast & the Furious or Transformers or even Keeanu’s previous own work like John Wick. Then instead of talking about the story you’d expect; instead of feeding you the explosions, you read a side quest in which the main characters all go to therapy. Yeah, it’s like a self help philosophy book & a Michael Bay film had a baby. Oh but it’s also…. Weird (in a good way). Because the story is about immortality and eggs and pigs and
Then there’s the writing style. Different. Difficult at first but then kind of addictive. I think the book gets easier to read as you read it and that’s because you learn to read the style but also probably because the author slowly mainstreams the style. The first few chapters were really hard, lots of pausing and looking up words…but eventually you start to learn the meanings of the words without having to look it up. Miéville does a great job of using context clues for the readers advantage.
There’s a part of me that wants to rate this book 5 stars because it will stick with me for a very long time and it was experimental and refreshing from the conventional or even linear methods of storytelling. There’s a part of me that wants to rate this book 2 stars because I think a lot of did not satisfy. Particularly the beginning was slow, and the end was rushed. The beginning at times was boring and as I previously said, difficult. The ending was inconclusive and confusing and left some unfinished plot (unanswered questions since this book is kind of a mystery to puzzle together I expected to figure it all out at the end). But as I right this review I’m thinking, perhaps that was the point and intentional. To be open-ended. But then I go back to thinking there could have been a better build up to the reveals.
Idk it was a weird book. I think I am settling at 3 stars. Which that in itself is weird to give such an average rating to such an (un-average) original novel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Violence
Minor: Gun violence, War
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel like this is more a philosophical book than an outright adventure book, but it does take a strange turn into action in the final act.
This turn seems abrupt in the context of the story.
This turn seems abrupt in the context of the story.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated