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A review by killersloth
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
3.0
I have mixed feelings. The world building is extremely imaginative and two main characters were very good. But honestly the lack of descriptions and explanations really brought the book down for me. It wasn't just the soft magic system presented as hard magic but with no real rules that matter to the story. That's annoying when it happens, but I can deal with it. But there was just such a lack of descriptions in general. Places, people, etc. were all just left very vague and I felt it was hard to picture and follow what was happening. And because of that it was hard to get invested in the plot.
I listened to the audiobook, and honestly I think this just would have been a MUCH better experience in written format. There are way too many weird names of people, factions, places, ships, etc., plus the in media res approach just made it very difficult. After about 3-4 chapters I actually started over and re-listened so I could try to figure out what was going on.
My favorite part of the book was in the third to last chapter where we get a flashback of Shuos academy. Finally we drop the unintelligible technobabble and get a piece of a tragic human story, in a cool backdrop setting of game design competitions and seduction classes. Give me a whole book of Shuos school, please.
I listened to the audiobook, and honestly I think this just would have been a MUCH better experience in written format. There are way too many weird names of people, factions, places, ships, etc., plus the in media res approach just made it very difficult. After about 3-4 chapters I actually started over and re-listened so I could try to figure out what was going on.
My favorite part of the book was in the third to last chapter where we get a flashback of Shuos academy. Finally we drop the unintelligible technobabble and get a piece of a tragic human story, in a cool backdrop setting of game design competitions and seduction classes. Give me a whole book of Shuos school, please.