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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I wasn’t going to read this book, but when I started it just to check it out briefly I couldn’t stop.
It was funny, interesting and kept me engaged the whole way through. This was a prime example of the amnesia storyline done well. I’m not usually a fan of mediaeval timelines, or anything to do with wizardry, but there was honestly not really any magic in that way. I also enjoyed the mediaeval time, mostly because it had people from a little further in our time technology wise.
I enjoyed discovering our main character as he kept going through the series, and how he interacted with everyone as he went through it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's Ok. There's some interesting and poignant sections about figuring out who you are and standing up to people who have told you that you are a failure. But some annoying parts and sometimes the action is skimmed over (despite there being a slow pace and not much happening, over all).
Our main character wakes up in a scorched field half in medieval clothes and half in modern clothes, and has to figure out what is happening. Turns out he's traveled to an alternate dimension (not the past). He blunders his way through a not-quite-Anglo-Saxon world and meets a series of people who generally are cool with a 22nd century man with medical nanites and skin plating. Slowly he figures how this world works with the help of pages from a book about cross-dimensional travel. We get to read these pages, and there are also lots of doodles between the chapters and sections. The books pages are marketing material really, for the dimensional travel, and so full of TM and R symbols on the names of things owned by the company who control the dimensions and the means to travel. Which quickly got very annoying.
The world building and backstory explanations didn't grab me. The sense of peril is low and not emotionally gripping. But I appreciated that the main character found a sense of himself in the end.
A fun side project that could have been more fully explored.
Our main character wakes up in a scorched field half in medieval clothes and half in modern clothes, and has to figure out what is happening. Turns out he's traveled to an alternate dimension (not the past). He blunders his way through a not-quite-Anglo-Saxon world and meets a series of people who generally are cool with a 22nd century man with medical nanites and skin plating. Slowly he figures how this world works with the help of pages from a book about cross-dimensional travel. We get to read these pages, and there are also lots of doodles between the chapters and sections. The books pages are marketing material really, for the dimensional travel, and so full of TM and R symbols on the names of things owned by the company who control the dimensions and the means to travel. Which quickly got very annoying.
The world building and backstory explanations didn't grab me. The sense of peril is low and not emotionally gripping. But I appreciated that the main character found a sense of himself in the end.
A fun side project that could have been more fully explored.
Content Warnings
Minor: Violence, Blood
Fun, not especially good. I enjoyed the excerpts from his guidebook, satirizing corporate ethics and the sort of interesting perspective on commodifying things that nobody really has business owning in the first place.
3.0 DNF a bit over the halfway mark. Didn't like it at all. Humor fell flat, bad recurring jokes that weren't funny the first time.