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ajsteele1699 's review for:
Exordia
by Seth Dickinson
DID NOT FINISH: 11%
The synopsis for this is very misleading. I was under the impression that the book was going to follow the POV of the main character, Anna, and the alien for the whole book. But right after the first 40 pages the story turns into hard military scifi and we follow the POV of the most insufferable special forces military guy. It was so disappointing because I was really enjoying the dynamic between Anna and the alien, and the shift to the perspective of the US military was not the vibe, it's the last thing I want to read about. I flipped through the 500 page book to see if the POV goes back to Anna but it looks like we stick with this group of military people for the whole thing with Anna and the alien kind of in the background.
This dramatic shift left me to ponder why this decision was made. Now I can't help but infer that it felt like the white male author lost confidence telling this story about a Kurdish woman who is a war refugee and instead shifted to a white military guy with a heart of gold. Is this a fair assumption? Probably not, but I don't have a lot to go on and I don't have the patience to get through 500 pages of this story if this is the direction it's going to take. Anyone who has read this and can confirm that my assumptions are wrong, please feel free to correct me.
This dramatic shift left me to ponder why this decision was made. Now I can't help but infer that it felt like the white male author lost confidence telling this story about a Kurdish woman who is a war refugee and instead shifted to a white military guy with a heart of gold. Is this a fair assumption? Probably not, but I don't have a lot to go on and I don't have the patience to get through 500 pages of this story if this is the direction it's going to take. Anyone who has read this and can confirm that my assumptions are wrong, please feel free to correct me.