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A review by willjacks
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
DNF
Just not getting into the story at all… it all sounds so boring. Also, I find it annoying that this is the third book in a ‘series’ and during the first 50 pages we’re introduced to new characters… just a personal pet peeve.
What I know:
- People have been in hypersleep for 2,600 years and have woken up at the planet they aimed to reach.
- Thousands of passengers died as a result of slowing down the ship.
- The life on this planet is limited to plankton and lychen.
- The weather patterns are erratic as well as the tide.
- Captain man and Vice Captain woman sometimes sleep with each other but whatever it’s chill.
- There’s something buried in the ground! But oh never mind, our unborn children will discover what it is.
Like, what are the stakes? What is supposed to be hooking me in and investing in this story? Why do I get the vibe that this will be disaster p@rn? I don’t really care about visions of someone’s uncle’s ghost or the witch that lives on the hill. I picked up this book still thinking of the Gilgamesh, Avrana Kern, Portia and the Octopi of the second book.
Maybe I’ll look at reading this again some other time.
Just not getting into the story at all… it all sounds so boring. Also, I find it annoying that this is the third book in a ‘series’ and during the first 50 pages we’re introduced to new characters… just a personal pet peeve.
What I know:
- People have been in hypersleep for 2,600 years and have woken up at the planet they aimed to reach.
- Thousands of passengers died as a result of slowing down the ship.
- The life on this planet is limited to plankton and lychen.
- The weather patterns are erratic as well as the tide.
- Captain man and Vice Captain woman sometimes sleep with each other but whatever it’s chill.
- There’s something buried in the ground! But oh never mind, our unborn children will discover what it is.
Like, what are the stakes? What is supposed to be hooking me in and investing in this story? Why do I get the vibe that this will be disaster p@rn? I don’t really care about visions of someone’s uncle’s ghost or the witch that lives on the hill. I picked up this book still thinking of the Gilgamesh, Avrana Kern, Portia and the Octopi of the second book.
Maybe I’ll look at reading this again some other time.