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A review by marie_thereadingotter
The Fly House by Misty Provencher
Did not finish book.
Another DNF for me... at only 14%.
I won this book in a blog giveaway, and the blogger made this book sound a lot better than it actually was. All that was said was that it was about dragons, and I foolishly didn't look into the book much more than that, probably should have.
At 65 pages in, there still was no real clear story arch. The way it jumped from the "past" to the new dystopian present, well.. it wasn't done well. There also was a heavy creep factor to the new future. Where women practically throw their naked bodies at men so they can get pregnant, or where the few women are constantly in fear of being raped, then there's the older guy that watches a much younger girl sleep in her Cryo-chamber, only to get a really really creepy at the prospect of getting into her pants when she wakes up.
The dialog was bad, the characters were uninteresting. To me it seemed like the author couldn't make up her mind in what kind of story she wanted to tell, Science fiction, Dysotpian, Fantasy. It has all three, but not in a very consistent way that could make an interesting story.
I won this book in a blog giveaway, and the blogger made this book sound a lot better than it actually was. All that was said was that it was about dragons, and I foolishly didn't look into the book much more than that, probably should have.
At 65 pages in, there still was no real clear story arch. The way it jumped from the "past" to the new dystopian present, well.. it wasn't done well. There also was a heavy creep factor to the new future. Where women practically throw their naked bodies at men so they can get pregnant, or where the few women are constantly in fear of being raped, then there's the older guy that watches a much younger girl sleep in her Cryo-chamber, only to get a really really creepy at the prospect of getting into her pants when she wakes up.
The dialog was bad, the characters were uninteresting. To me it seemed like the author couldn't make up her mind in what kind of story she wanted to tell, Science fiction, Dysotpian, Fantasy. It has all three, but not in a very consistent way that could make an interesting story.