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A review by bryonie
Cosega Search by Brandt Legg

1.0

There are a couple reasons why I gave this book a 1-star rating.

This first is because other than words on the page (er, screen, since I read this as an ebook), this reads like a bad first draft from a new author, and it really isn't a story. Sure, there is a beginning, but there is no climax or end. It just kind of hovers on a (bad) chase scene for 260 pages. There are no ups and downs, there is no climax, and there certainly is no wrap-up or ending.

Second is the characters... They are all so one-dimensional. There is nothing about any of them that makes you want to like them let alone understand why they are doing what they are doing. There's no justification for the entire novel either, because why Rip does what he does in the very first few chapters is still as clear as mud by the end. And the so-called black-ops-type characters chasing after these 'good guys'? By the end of the book it felt like I had the soundtrack of Benny Hill playing in the background, or was reading a Mr. Bean script.

And one final word on the actual writing. Why I said earlier it read like a first draft of a first novel is because it became very apparent early on in the book that if there was dialog, the author had no idea how to intersperse it with description, and when there were long tracts of description, there was no dialog. Not once in the book were the two parts of writing interwoven. Not even a little bit. We'd have entire chapters (well, considering, the longest chapter in the whole book was, I think, 13 kobo screens long, I'd hesitate to even call them chapters) of description, then entire chapters of ONLY dialog. And not only that, but there was very few attributions to that dialog. It's almost as if someone had told the author that said was a four letter word and should be avoided.

Oh, and the PoV shifting... I hate it when we are blasted by shit that the PoV character could never know because it's all going on in another character's head.

All in all, a very poor book, and one in which I probably will not finish the series. Thank goodness I got this as a free book from Kobo and didn't pay actual money for it. I might have demanded a refund.