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In the Quick by Kate Hope Day

1.0

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They say don’t judge a book by its cover. Well, this book has a beautiful cover, but the praise ends there. This novel has been likened to both The Martian and Jane Eyre, perhaps that was by someone who dislike both. There are things reminiscent of The Martian, if you disregarded all science. Almost all of the sci-fi elements seem unrealistic and not well researched, and that flaw is not rescued by character development, sadly. Too much of the novel is spent when the protagonist is a child—almost half—then there’s an abrupt transition to her as adult on the verge of a romantic relationship. It’s a hard pivot that could have been done more gracefully, especially because there was room in the first half of the novel to trim a lot of superfluous detains and get us closer to the action in the story.