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highvoltagegrrl 's review for:
Spark
by John Twelve Hawks
This is the book I have been most looking forward to over the year. I absolutely love John Twelve Hawk’s Fourth Realm Trilogy. The Traveler rates upon my top 10 favorite books and it’s in a genre I don’t read enough of because I don’t usually enjoy it so much.
Spark has a different feel than The Fourth Realm Trilogy. Yes, the paranoia with technology and being tracked by everything we do is still there and very present in the story. This lacks the heart and warmth that Hawk’s other books had, which is what helped to draw me into such a cold world and story. This story is just cold, with no feelings attached. The main character thinks of himself as dead and is unemotional about (almost) everything, so there aren’t any redeeming qualities that made me want to root for him. I just didn’t care what happened to anyone in the story at all.
I think the book is intelligently written and Hawks is great about building the world his characters live in, even if it isn’t too different than our own. I just wanted so much more from this book and felt let down as I finished it and that was that.
Book Received: For free from publisher in exchange for an honest review
Reviewer: Jessica for Book Sake
Spark has a different feel than The Fourth Realm Trilogy. Yes, the paranoia with technology and being tracked by everything we do is still there and very present in the story. This lacks the heart and warmth that Hawk’s other books had, which is what helped to draw me into such a cold world and story. This story is just cold, with no feelings attached. The main character thinks of himself as dead and is unemotional about (almost) everything, so there aren’t any redeeming qualities that made me want to root for him. I just didn’t care what happened to anyone in the story at all.
I think the book is intelligently written and Hawks is great about building the world his characters live in, even if it isn’t too different than our own. I just wanted so much more from this book and felt let down as I finished it and that was that.
Book Received: For free from publisher in exchange for an honest review
Reviewer: Jessica for Book Sake