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thespicelessreader 's review for:
Aqueous
by Jade Shyback
DID NOT FINISH: 14%
Was only able to make it to 18% of this audiobook. The premise was super interesting and the author did a phenomenal job narrating her book, but unfortunately the dialogue was very clunky and unnatural and made it hard to stay engaged with the story. Also while I can appreciate the world that is being built I found that the station and all its technologies are over described and came all at once in a mass info dump rather than being slowly revealed as we moved through and experienced it through the characters.
There felt like a huge difference between the beautiful lyrical writing we got when the author was describing the world before, and the very clinical tone of the world after. This was likely deliberate but made for a whiplash reading experience moving between the two time frames. This is the authors debut work and bumps along the way are to be expected, I look forward to any future works by this author, or even a better edited/refined copy of this story.
There felt like a huge difference between the beautiful lyrical writing we got when the author was describing the world before, and the very clinical tone of the world after. This was likely deliberate but made for a whiplash reading experience moving between the two time frames. This is the authors debut work and bumps along the way are to be expected, I look forward to any future works by this author, or even a better edited/refined copy of this story.