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A review by siria
Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston
1.0
It's rarely good to finish a book and be surprised to find that it wasn't the author's first. This was just inept.
E.K. Johnston tackles a lot of difficult topics in Aetherbound—food security issues and related issues with eating; physical and emotional abuse of children; human trafficking; forced insemination/rape; eugenics; indentured servitude; colonialism—and while I don't think it's impossible to do so well in a slim YA novel, Johnston doesn't pull it off.
There's no depth to either the characters, their relationships, or the concept of the book as a whole. Nothing is fleshed out, and Johnston seems weirdly uninterested in the implications of the scenarios she sets up. There are plot holes and logical improbabilities/impossibilities all over the place, although I could have overlooked some of them if the characters weren't so dull.
E.K. Johnston tackles a lot of difficult topics in Aetherbound—food security issues and related issues with eating; physical and emotional abuse of children; human trafficking; forced insemination/rape; eugenics; indentured servitude; colonialism—and while I don't think it's impossible to do so well in a slim YA novel, Johnston doesn't pull it off.
There's no depth to either the characters, their relationships, or the concept of the book as a whole. Nothing is fleshed out, and Johnston seems weirdly uninterested in the implications of the scenarios she sets up. There are plot holes and logical improbabilities/impossibilities all over the place, although I could have overlooked some of them if the characters weren't so dull.