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A review by justinlife
Gogmagog by Jeff Noon, Steve Beard
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
We live in a time where there’s so much media grabbing for your attention. It makes it difficult to understand some of the choices here. The world here was hard to follow. I couldn’t visualize it and there was no map or glossary or written history to help me navigate this story.
Overall it’s fine. It’s not awful but it’s not great. The reader is placed in a story with little direction of time and place. There’s not much to help us along. After the first 50 pages or so, I was able to figure out what was going on. I still don’t have a clear picture of the world, though. Lots of history and past events told by the characters but for as rich as it tried to be, it felt more confusing.
I did get annoyed when I realized we weren’t going to finish the story by the end. I think fantasy and scifi when at its best allows for the complete story within a story so that if we don’t want to read more we don’t have to as we’ve gotten a complete story. This felt incomplete which was frustrating.
Overall it’s fine. It’s not awful but it’s not great. The reader is placed in a story with little direction of time and place. There’s not much to help us along. After the first 50 pages or so, I was able to figure out what was going on. I still don’t have a clear picture of the world, though. Lots of history and past events told by the characters but for as rich as it tried to be, it felt more confusing.
I did get annoyed when I realized we weren’t going to finish the story by the end. I think fantasy and scifi when at its best allows for the complete story within a story so that if we don’t want to read more we don’t have to as we’ve gotten a complete story. This felt incomplete which was frustrating.