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A review by fictioncourt
Infinity by Jus Accardo
2.0
2 stars!
Well, as promising as this one was, ultimately it wasn't anything that hasn't been done before and for the most part I was willing to look past that but the narration was the hardest to overlook.
Kori, the heroine, has to be the most unreadable character ever. 8/10 of her inner thoughts and actual dialogue was a question. In order for the story to build any kind of background, Kori asked a million questions. I'm seriously not even exaggerating with this, each chapter had more than 20 question marks. And while it did provide information, the heroine did nothing else, she just asked questions and kept wondering about stuff that was happening, in her head. After a while it just got boring and they were not needed, at all.
The romance part was lukewarm, sort of like a Vampire Diaries doppelganger thing going on and of course the badass villain that is almost cartoonish. But I did like the premise of the story, the author really knows how to create a believable storyline even with all the cringe worthy attempts to justify technological advances and time travel, calling it "sci-fi" and too complicated for "our Earth" to know but still, the potential was there, it just needs a good edit and a far more interesting heroine for the info dump.
Well, as promising as this one was, ultimately it wasn't anything that hasn't been done before and for the most part I was willing to look past that but the narration was the hardest to overlook.
Kori, the heroine, has to be the most unreadable character ever. 8/10 of her inner thoughts and actual dialogue was a question. In order for the story to build any kind of background, Kori asked a million questions. I'm seriously not even exaggerating with this, each chapter had more than 20 question marks. And while it did provide information, the heroine did nothing else, she just asked questions and kept wondering about stuff that was happening, in her head. After a while it just got boring and they were not needed, at all.
The romance part was lukewarm, sort of like a Vampire Diaries doppelganger thing going on and of course the badass villain that is almost cartoonish. But I did like the premise of the story, the author really knows how to create a believable storyline even with all the cringe worthy attempts to justify technological advances and time travel, calling it "sci-fi" and too complicated for "our Earth" to know but still, the potential was there, it just needs a good edit and a far more interesting heroine for the info dump.