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daredeviling 's review for:
The Quiet Room
by Terry Miles
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I think I'm giving up on this series because I don't understand anything that is happening in it. I got through this whole book with a sort of detachment where I was just reading and understanding the individual words and sentences, but not really fully following the plotline or anything. It just feels like the characters were running around from one place to another throughout the entire novel. Old characters would leave and never be heard of again, and new characters would come in. None of the characters were developed or had any personality or anything, and they only were there to serve the plot instead of the other way around with the plot servicing the characters. None of them seemed to have grown or developed by the end of the novel, and nothing was really resolved.
This really feels like those instances in TV when the writers make storylines too complicated and then have no idea how to actually resolve anything. With all the dimension hopping and alternate universes and everything, it's all too convoluted to make much sense anymore, and I don't even have good character development to at least hang onto, because the main character could literally have been substituted by anyone else and nothing much would have changed overall.
Quoted from another review:
🐰 What actually was the plot? This was so typical of a Miles product: A bunch of nonsense conspiracy talk, mix in some stupid coincidences and cardboard cutout characters, add a dash of real-world tragedy in very poor taste, exposition delivered ENTIRELY via dialogue, and a plot that is literally: Go to Point A, find a clue that means nothing and leads nowhere, go to Point B, find a clue that means nothing and leads nowhere, go to Point C, find a clue that means nothing and leads nowhere, Sudden Reveal!, characters miraculously draw a Hail Mary conclusion, cliffhanger, fin.
(Okay, not completely fair because I LOVE The Black Tapes which was another Terry Miles podcast...but I will admit that they were unable to fully resolve all the plotlines in the end because things got too complicated, and therefore the ending was stupid and made no sense, much like this book.)
This really feels like those instances in TV when the writers make storylines too complicated and then have no idea how to actually resolve anything. With all the dimension hopping and alternate universes and everything, it's all too convoluted to make much sense anymore, and I don't even have good character development to at least hang onto, because the main character could literally have been substituted by anyone else and nothing much would have changed overall.
Quoted from another review:
🐰 What actually was the plot? This was so typical of a Miles product: A bunch of nonsense conspiracy talk, mix in some stupid coincidences and cardboard cutout characters, add a dash of real-world tragedy in very poor taste, exposition delivered ENTIRELY via dialogue, and a plot that is literally: Go to Point A, find a clue that means nothing and leads nowhere, go to Point B, find a clue that means nothing and leads nowhere, go to Point C, find a clue that means nothing and leads nowhere, Sudden Reveal!, characters miraculously draw a Hail Mary conclusion, cliffhanger, fin.
(Okay, not completely fair because I LOVE The Black Tapes which was another Terry Miles podcast...but I will admit that they were unable to fully resolve all the plotlines in the end because things got too complicated, and therefore the ending was stupid and made no sense, much like this book.)