142 reviews for:

Big Time

Ben H. Winters

3.43 AVERAGE

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: No
adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
mysterious fast-paced

Quick and easy listen -  very interesting concept and I loved how the book was set up so that we didn’t fully understand until close to the end of the book. 
funny mysterious slow-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
adventurous informative mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Big Time is well-written at the level of its prose and small-scale characterizations and has incredibly interesting trappings--an assassin, an FDA agent, and a missing-girl meeting at a high-concept intersection involving an experimental 'time' technology--but coming away from it, I don't think those things were brought out to their greatest potential.

I wish more had been done with its concept and characters (the novel as a whole probably too short for its own good), or that it had felt more action-oriented, breakneck, or trippy, which is totally possible with the tools at play here. Have more thoughts on it but probably want to let them settle for a while.
adventurous tense medium-paced