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Salvagia
by Tim Chawaga
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Thank you NetGalley and Diversion Books for the ARC.
I really wanted to like this book, I really did. The plot of the book sounded so interesting. A post-apocalyptic world where pieces of salvage, like old shoes and trading cards, have tremendous value and instead of racing on a track races take place in space. But there really was just too much going on in this book for me to know what was happening at any point.
The plot of this book was really confusing, I think especially because the world building was not the best. I think that if this book was longer and the world was able to be explained, the plot wouldn’t have been as confusing. But as it stands it feels like there were a bunch of plot points strung together with a smattering of world-building interspersed.
I liked the idea of most of the characters but there wasn’t much if any character development in the whole book. The reasons that most of the characters did anything was not clear and was actually really confusing most of the time. It was difficult to know who to trust in the book, which may be due to the book being told from the main character’s point of view, but even her actions didn’t always make much senese.
Finally, I think that the setting of this book was a little confusing. This book is set in Florida but I felt like if you didn’t know a lot about the landscape of Florida it was difficult to understand where the characters were, where they were going, and how long it would even take to get there. I don’t know if there is a map in the final copy of the book but I think that the lack of a map made it difficult to get my bearings in this book.
The only people that I think would really love this book are people who love dystopian books and love Flordia. Other than that, I think that this book should probably be a pass.
I really wanted to like this book, I really did. The plot of the book sounded so interesting. A post-apocalyptic world where pieces of salvage, like old shoes and trading cards, have tremendous value and instead of racing on a track races take place in space. But there really was just too much going on in this book for me to know what was happening at any point.
The plot of this book was really confusing, I think especially because the world building was not the best. I think that if this book was longer and the world was able to be explained, the plot wouldn’t have been as confusing. But as it stands it feels like there were a bunch of plot points strung together with a smattering of world-building interspersed.
I liked the idea of most of the characters but there wasn’t much if any character development in the whole book. The reasons that most of the characters did anything was not clear and was actually really confusing most of the time. It was difficult to know who to trust in the book, which may be due to the book being told from the main character’s point of view, but even her actions didn’t always make much senese.
Finally, I think that the setting of this book was a little confusing. This book is set in Florida but I felt like if you didn’t know a lot about the landscape of Florida it was difficult to understand where the characters were, where they were going, and how long it would even take to get there. I don’t know if there is a map in the final copy of the book but I think that the lack of a map made it difficult to get my bearings in this book.
The only people that I think would really love this book are people who love dystopian books and love Flordia. Other than that, I think that this book should probably be a pass.