A review by trevert
The Forever Watch by David B. Ramirez

2.0

*Sigh*. Another DNF. However, I actually listened to the audiobook right up to part 30 of the 34 chapters, so I feel like I got a pretty good feel for the book even though I didn't finish. When I finally bailed, I'd realized that I was not actually following the story anymore, but was simply doing other things with it running as background noise while waiting for it to be over, because I was that uninvolved with it. The writer is an excellent world-builder. He also does terrific plots. The story was complex, interesting, and had some nice twists. However, the characters were so flat and uninteresting that I never connected with anyone in the book, and when I realized that at chapter 30 or 34, I *still* did not care what happened to these cardboard people, I bailed.

You know those 600 page books that are 30 pages of story and 570 pages of the main character navel-gazing and dithering over obvious choices to make? This was the mirror opposite of that.