mebius 's review for:

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

3.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Interesting idea and weird narrative with different characters but at the same time overall plot is predictable and repetitive. Land on new planet conveniently near village. Locals throw a party because of course they have unlimited food to throw at completely unknown visitors. Afterwards locals

try to betray

our heroes. It felt like author wanted/needed to make book bigger to show vast universe, but had only limited number of scenarios to use. Oh, and to show that this is scifi book, author sometimes throwing a bunch of techno babble making some paragraphs unreadable.