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A review by shrimperator
Advent by Seth Ring
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
The plot about the war against giant bugs is fun, the progression is fun. However, everything else sucks. The bugs are genuinely unimportant, as it turns out, and the plot is really a crime/secret agent/political corruption thriller. Unfortunately, the plot is pretty bad: Deus ex machinas at every turn, the protagonist is laughably dumb and the antagonists are pretty nonsensical and inconsistent.
5 stars for the bug plot, <3 stars for the rest (which is genuinely bad)
What I hate most, are all the inconsistencies:
1. Clearly, the city is corrupt, monsters are appearing everywhere, the protagonist's brother is left to die in the wilds... Yet the protagonist keeps brushing it off like everything is fine. Even stumbling across several corpses in the goddamn city, he doesn't give a shit.
2. While I find the monstrous cat somewhat funny, it doesn't make sense how everybody (including the main character) keeps ignoring her. The cat meows with a human voice and yet everybody brushes it off and just completely ignores the elephant in the room.
3. Apparently there's a war going on, and 15 years prior half the city was destroyed. Now the military very openly announce that another huge attack is coming, and yet everybody conveniently just ignores that half the fucking wall is still missing and nobody is repairing it. I'm not buying it.
I'm sorry: but the plot is just badly executed, filled with holes and is entirely nonsensical. If it weren't for the character progression, this would be a 2/5 at best.
5 stars for the bug plot, <3 stars for the rest (which is genuinely bad)
What I hate most, are all the inconsistencies:
1. Clearly, the city is corrupt, monsters are appearing everywhere, the protagonist's brother is left to die in the wilds... Yet the protagonist keeps brushing it off like everything is fine. Even stumbling across several corpses in the goddamn city, he doesn't give a shit.
2. While I find the monstrous cat somewhat funny, it doesn't make sense how everybody (including the main character) keeps ignoring her. The cat meows with a human voice and yet everybody brushes it off and just completely ignores the elephant in the room.
3. Apparently there's a war going on, and 15 years prior half the city was destroyed. Now the military very openly announce that another huge attack is coming, and yet everybody conveniently just ignores that half the fucking wall is still missing and nobody is repairing it. I'm not buying it.
I'm sorry: but the plot is just badly executed, filled with holes and is entirely nonsensical. If it weren't for the character progression, this would be a 2/5 at best.