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A review by jamespatrickjoyce
The Barque of Heaven by Suzanne Wood
Did not finish book.
To be honest, I couldn't finish it, but I still feel that I read (too) far enough to make a judgement: holy terrible.
Can I swear the author wouldn't write good stories in her own universe? No, I guess not. But a lot of it was just stereotypical character-type writing. It really, honestly felt like the author had not seen a single episode, beyond maybe the first. And was just mimicking "the studious nerd" and "the thoughtful warrior" and etc., with no concept of who those characters actually are.
I finally got fed up when, on an alien planet, Jack (the armchair astronomer with his own telescope) needs astronomy lessons from the physicist. Because... she didn't know who the character are. And then the advice/commentary revolves around whether they could see the same constellations from another planet. Aaaaand the answer wasn't no, I slapped my forehead, resulting in the book flying into the nearby incinerator (actually, I dumped it at a Little Free Library, because maybe a kid will enjoy it) and I vowed to scratch an author off my list.
Yeesh.
Can I swear the author wouldn't write good stories in her own universe? No, I guess not. But a lot of it was just stereotypical character-type writing. It really, honestly felt like the author had not seen a single episode, beyond maybe the first. And was just mimicking "the studious nerd" and "the thoughtful warrior" and etc., with no concept of who those characters actually are.
I finally got fed up when, on an alien planet, Jack (the armchair astronomer with his own telescope) needs astronomy lessons from the physicist. Because... she didn't know who the character are. And then the advice/commentary revolves around whether they could see the same constellations from another planet. Aaaaand the answer wasn't no, I slapped my forehead, resulting in the book flying into the nearby incinerator (actually, I dumped it at a Little Free Library, because maybe a kid will enjoy it) and I vowed to scratch an author off my list.
Yeesh.