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A review by wannabekingpin
Proxy by Alex London
3.0
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night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: In this world you can be born with a debt. And it can grow deeper by decades if you need something basic, essential, and can’t afford it. The debts are paid by suffering for crimes, discrepancies, rebellions the patrons who bought the debt have committed, things you didn’t do. Needless to say, there’s varied levels to the suffering, and so people in the lowest casts have turned to hope, and legends. One in particular speaks of a rogue code, engineered to erase all the debt. And that one day it’ll spread through the system…
My Opinion: Poorly written characters break otherwise good stories. In this case it is not much of either. Characters are shallow and are easily traced in their trope or type, where nothing unexpected happens, where their decisions are basic, and require no basis for it. This leads to events that merely fill the gaps between steps in the story, and more often than not – add nothing to it. No character growth, development, no substance in the story. The only thing that was good were the jokes.
night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: In this world you can be born with a debt. And it can grow deeper by decades if you need something basic, essential, and can’t afford it. The debts are paid by suffering for crimes, discrepancies, rebellions the patrons who bought the debt have committed, things you didn’t do. Needless to say, there’s varied levels to the suffering, and so people in the lowest casts have turned to hope, and legends. One in particular speaks of a rogue code, engineered to erase all the debt. And that one day it’ll spread through the system…
My Opinion: Poorly written characters break otherwise good stories. In this case it is not much of either. Characters are shallow and are easily traced in their trope or type, where nothing unexpected happens, where their decisions are basic, and require no basis for it. This leads to events that merely fill the gaps between steps in the story, and more often than not – add nothing to it. No character growth, development, no substance in the story. The only thing that was good were the jokes.