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A review by soramun
Zenith by Lindsay Cummings, Sasha Alsberg
2.0
As someone who is avid in the BookTube community and who is also subscribed to Sasha, some of you might think I'm a bit biased...But I refuse to let that effect my views.
Anyway, this novel follows Androma Racella, a "badass" space pirate who goes around stealing things and killing people with her all female crew across the Mirabel Galaxy. Because of her reputation she is now known as the Bloody Baroness. She has a tragic past involving the death of her best friend and since then she's been trying to stay far away from her home world, her bounty hunter ex boyfriend, and the galaxy patrolmen who are after her and her crew for their crimes. That is until she is forced to fly around in her star-ship and into a dangerous and thrilling journey that might cause a giant war.
I haven't read many sci-fi books, but the plot sounded extremely fun and exciting, not to mention I really like Sasha as a book reviewer and overall human being. She's fun. I don't really know much about Lindsay Cummings, only that she has another series of her own which I've not read but she seemed like a cool person too. Since they are both avid readers I assumed they would stay away from common tropes, cheesy dialogue and bad romances...but no. All those things were very present in this book which was a big disappointment.
I was about 100 pages into the story before I realized something just wasn't right. I didn't feel immersed and overall I didn't have a connection with ANY of the characters. Not even the fun idea of star-ship pirates and galaxy travel engaged me. I came to the conclusion after reading another 100 pages that there were multiple problems including: Bad Dialogue, Confusing descriptions, Unnecessary flash backs, Flat Characters, Iffy Romances, and Faulty world building.
I could go on and on but I'm sure other reviewers have done that. All I want to end this review with is that I really had high hopes and this book had such promise. Nor's point of view was interesting, but the constant flashbacks was a little overbearing sometimes. The plot twist could have been so much better and it would have effected me so much more if all those other things about the story had been better and more refined. I even liked the friendships between all the girls in Androma's crew but in the end even that wasn't enough. I might pick up book two, I just really hope both authors rethink the structure they've been going with thus far.
Anyway, this novel follows Androma Racella, a "badass" space pirate who goes around stealing things and killing people with her all female crew across the Mirabel Galaxy. Because of her reputation she is now known as the Bloody Baroness. She has a tragic past involving the death of her best friend and since then she's been trying to stay far away from her home world, her bounty hunter ex boyfriend, and the galaxy patrolmen who are after her and her crew for their crimes. That is until she is forced to fly around in her star-ship and into a dangerous and thrilling journey that might cause a giant war.
I haven't read many sci-fi books, but the plot sounded extremely fun and exciting, not to mention I really like Sasha as a book reviewer and overall human being. She's fun. I don't really know much about Lindsay Cummings, only that she has another series of her own which I've not read but she seemed like a cool person too. Since they are both avid readers I assumed they would stay away from common tropes, cheesy dialogue and bad romances...but no. All those things were very present in this book which was a big disappointment.
I was about 100 pages into the story before I realized something just wasn't right. I didn't feel immersed and overall I didn't have a connection with ANY of the characters. Not even the fun idea of star-ship pirates and galaxy travel engaged me. I came to the conclusion after reading another 100 pages that there were multiple problems including: Bad Dialogue, Confusing descriptions, Unnecessary flash backs, Flat Characters, Iffy Romances, and Faulty world building.
I could go on and on but I'm sure other reviewers have done that. All I want to end this review with is that I really had high hopes and this book had such promise. Nor's point of view was interesting, but the constant flashbacks was a little overbearing sometimes. The plot twist could have been so much better and it would have effected me so much more if all those other things about the story had been better and more refined. I even liked the friendships between all the girls in Androma's crew but in the end even that wasn't enough. I might pick up book two, I just really hope both authors rethink the structure they've been going with thus far.