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Axiom's End
by Lindsay Ellis
I did like some aspects of this book. There is some philosophical stuff brought up, the aliens can be interesting at times), it’s not completely bad—but I simply can’t get over some of the issues that constantly crop up.
A few scenes make it through, otherwise this has a lot of fundamental problems. The character work is bad, sentence level issues are predominate, dialogue is exceptionally bad. Tonally it vacillated so often I wasn’t sure if it was trying to be comedic in a given scene or not. Mostly, the problems kicked me out of the narrative more often than I was able to get into it. There’s granular detail on stuff that isn’t interesting, it contradicts its own worldbuilding or else handwaves things. It’s on rails, with the protagonist just having things done to her. And she reacts in mystifying ways that hamper the flow and story.
A few scenes make it through, otherwise this has a lot of fundamental problems. The character work is bad, sentence level issues are predominate, dialogue is exceptionally bad. Tonally it vacillated so often I wasn’t sure if it was trying to be comedic in a given scene or not. Mostly, the problems kicked me out of the narrative more often than I was able to get into it. There’s granular detail on stuff that isn’t interesting, it contradicts its own worldbuilding or else handwaves things. It’s on rails, with the protagonist just having things done to her. And she reacts in mystifying ways that hamper the flow and story.