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The 4-stars can sometimes be a million times more frustrating than the 1-stars!!!
I really, really liked this. I had fun all the way through, but it just fell short of being excellent.
Aside from my usual gripes with authors butchering science, this had so much potential. Coming into this read with no context on the genre of the book helped keep me in suspense for the first bit, because I didn't know if it was going to turn out to be a serial killer mystery or supernatural horror.
Once that line had been clearly drawn, it felt like there was a huge reveal just around the corner, and every little reveal of additional context helped to build that suspense. Things got more and more intense, people dying and things going wrong left and right. Incompetent police and meddling bureaucrats make things worse and put the cast in perilous positions.
And then... at the last moment.....
It just keeps going pretty much exactly how you'd expect. There's no single big reveal that flips everything upside down. The tension that has been built so artfully over the past 350 pages is released very slowly over a few chapters.
That's not to say it's done poorly by any means. The writing is crisp and engaging, and the characters are distinct. I was enjoying myself all the way through, but I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it never did. The epilogue does a lot to remedy this on a macro-story scale, but not necessarily the pacing and feel of the climactic scenes. I don't know what the right twist would have been here, but I feel like there was an extra 10% of oopmh that would have taken this from good to mind-blowing.
With about as much frustration as I can possibly express over the internet: 4/5
I really, really liked this. I had fun all the way through, but it just fell short of being excellent.
Aside from my usual gripes with authors butchering science, this had so much potential. Coming into this read with no context on the genre of the book helped keep me in suspense for the first bit, because I didn't know if it was going to turn out to be a serial killer mystery or supernatural horror.
Once that line had been clearly drawn, it felt like there was a huge reveal just around the corner, and every little reveal of additional context helped to build that suspense. Things got more and more intense, people dying and things going wrong left and right. Incompetent police and meddling bureaucrats make things worse and put the cast in perilous positions.
And then... at the last moment.....
It just keeps going pretty much exactly how you'd expect. There's no single big reveal that flips everything upside down. The tension that has been built so artfully over the past 350 pages is released very slowly over a few chapters.
That's not to say it's done poorly by any means. The writing is crisp and engaging, and the characters are distinct. I was enjoying myself all the way through, but I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it never did. The epilogue does a lot to remedy this on a macro-story scale, but not necessarily the pacing and feel of the climactic scenes. I don't know what the right twist would have been here, but I feel like there was an extra 10% of oopmh that would have taken this from good to mind-blowing.
With about as much frustration as I can possibly express over the internet: 4/5