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A review by sinamile
The Interstellar Slayer by Scott Baron
4.0
ARC Review: Received for free via BookSirens for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Thank you Scott Baron for the opportunity.
CW/TW: death, blood, blood drinking, stabbing, assassin, violence, slavery, child abuse, child neglect, emotional abandonment, nudity, physical fight, mention of slave trading, slavery
This book feels like it should be longer. It's set up to be one of those long ass book with big sciencey words that I end up not remembering or caring to remember because they're so long and so many. But this book is nothing like that!
This book is such a quick read, with an interesting plot. We are not clogged with big sciencey words nor are we clogged with a whole lot of info dumping. I think this book was actually paced really well without taking away from the world building. The chapters are nice and short, again, again, there is no unnecessary info dumping.
The characters are a little lacking I think, in such a way that I didn't 100% care enough about them to be sad if they were assumed dead. But at the same time, it's not so bad that I didn't not care about them. AND we aren't clogged up with so many characters that I end up not knowing who's who, instead we have a minimum amount of characters that we remember and we know exactly who to root for.
And on the topic of sciencey words, I like that this mixes magic and science and that even then we aren't clogged up and made to feel like we know nothing. Scott Baron doesn't lose us with big words and long-winded explanations about the science and magic of it all, instead he keeps it simple and therefore let's me care enough to try and understand the magic system and science of it all. I like that, like that in a book that could've gone all the way with the fake science, it decided to keep it simple and understandable.
I was a little afraid going into this, thinking that by the end I wouldn't want to complete it, but lo and behold, I could barely put it down because it's that good and that intriguing. I really enjoyed this and cannot wait to get into the second book, especially now that we're going to be introduced to even more alien races. Yay!
CW/TW: death, blood, blood drinking, stabbing, assassin, violence, slavery, child abuse, child neglect, emotional abandonment, nudity, physical fight, mention of slave trading, slavery
This book feels like it should be longer. It's set up to be one of those long ass book with big sciencey words that I end up not remembering or caring to remember because they're so long and so many. But this book is nothing like that!
This book is such a quick read, with an interesting plot. We are not clogged with big sciencey words nor are we clogged with a whole lot of info dumping. I think this book was actually paced really well without taking away from the world building. The chapters are nice and short, again, again, there is no unnecessary info dumping.
The characters are a little lacking I think, in such a way that I didn't 100% care enough about them to be sad if they were assumed dead. But at the same time, it's not so bad that I didn't not care about them. AND we aren't clogged up with so many characters that I end up not knowing who's who, instead we have a minimum amount of characters that we remember and we know exactly who to root for.
And on the topic of sciencey words, I like that this mixes magic and science and that even then we aren't clogged up and made to feel like we know nothing. Scott Baron doesn't lose us with big words and long-winded explanations about the science and magic of it all, instead he keeps it simple and therefore let's me care enough to try and understand the magic system and science of it all. I like that, like that in a book that could've gone all the way with the fake science, it decided to keep it simple and understandable.
I was a little afraid going into this, thinking that by the end I wouldn't want to complete it, but lo and behold, I could barely put it down because it's that good and that intriguing. I really enjoyed this and cannot wait to get into the second book, especially now that we're going to be introduced to even more alien races. Yay!