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A review by oldfangledforest
Meru by S.B. Divya
3.0
If GoodReads allowed for half stars, I’d round this up to 3.5 stars. I enjoyed the overall storyline, but there were a couple of things that prevented me from really getting into this.
I thought the world building was fantastic, this is such a cool futuristic concept. I also really like that this encompasses the idea of attempting to terraform other planets, in addition to the complex societal changes arising between humans and engineered humanoid beings called alloys. Although it did take me some tile getting use to the pronoun “zir”, I thought it fit the concept of alloys very well.
The two main things that really held me back from enjoying this more were the follows: the development of the relationship between the main human character, Jayanthi, and the main alloy, Vaha, and the swapping of the POV between the two of them.
I feel like I really missed the relationship between them developing them, it didn’t really build up to it in my opinion and felt very rushed. Since it felt so rushed, it felt very inorganic to me and unbelievable. I was even more confused by the development of their family, which I felt came out of nowhere and was extremely rushed given that their relationship felt inorganic to begin with.
I usually don’t mind the swapping of POVs in books, but I felt that the swapping between them did not really lend anything additional to the story and it didn’t lend to creating a connection to the characters either. I thought Vaha’s chapters were very dull and I couldn’t wait for them to swap back to Jayanthi’s.
I thought the world building was fantastic, this is such a cool futuristic concept. I also really like that this encompasses the idea of attempting to terraform other planets, in addition to the complex societal changes arising between humans and engineered humanoid beings called alloys. Although it did take me some tile getting use to the pronoun “zir”, I thought it fit the concept of alloys very well.
The two main things that really held me back from enjoying this more were the follows: the development of the relationship between the main human character, Jayanthi, and the main alloy, Vaha, and the swapping of the POV between the two of them.
I feel like I really missed the relationship between them developing them, it didn’t really build up to it in my opinion and felt very rushed. Since it felt so rushed, it felt very inorganic to me and unbelievable. I was even more confused by the development of their family, which I felt came out of nowhere and was extremely rushed given that their relationship felt inorganic to begin with.
I usually don’t mind the swapping of POVs in books, but I felt that the swapping between them did not really lend anything additional to the story and it didn’t lend to creating a connection to the characters either. I thought Vaha’s chapters were very dull and I couldn’t wait for them to swap back to Jayanthi’s.