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A review by solflo
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
this book has a 4.14 star rating in here. i'm sorry i have to be mean: did we read the same fucking book.
it has issues with pacing — events can take weird amounts of time, and action scenes can be a drag (maybe i'm just more fond of politics and mystery than of cool guy protagonist with his chain knife) — and 'solidity' in general. but my main gripe is with the worldbuilding; it's lazy and barebones, i don't know enough of the world to understand it and its characters. it's hard to grasp the setting's technology and science in particular, and there's a fair amount of focus on that. no plumbing but there's gene sequencing. ok. every element is there for convenience rather than thoughtful worldbuilding. it has to feel historical-ish so breeches and bedpans, but the story needs a lot of looking into blood and whose it is, so it's at least the 1970s suddenly.
it's saurrr contrived and what for? the story is absolutely nothing to write home about. diversity win! the romance with poor chemistry you see coming from the blurb is a throuple! pretty much every individual element i complain about is fine i guess in a vacuum but combine into a perfectly unremarkable whole made of nothing but stock elements. didn't care for anything here. book is lame & boring.
i'll grant it though: there's a lot of expletives / profanity but it didn't feel too excessive or forced as is usually the case in bad books. the prose wasn't painful to read at least.
it has issues with pacing — events can take weird amounts of time, and action scenes can be a drag (maybe i'm just more fond of politics and mystery than of cool guy protagonist with his chain knife) — and 'solidity' in general. but my main gripe is with the worldbuilding; it's lazy and barebones, i don't know enough of the world to understand it and its characters. it's hard to grasp the setting's technology and science in particular, and there's a fair amount of focus on that. no plumbing but there's gene sequencing. ok. every element is there for convenience rather than thoughtful worldbuilding. it has to feel historical-ish so breeches and bedpans, but the story needs a lot of looking into blood and whose it is, so it's at least the 1970s suddenly.
it's saurrr contrived and what for? the story is absolutely nothing to write home about. diversity win! the romance with poor chemistry you see coming from the blurb is a throuple! pretty much every individual element i complain about is fine i guess in a vacuum but combine into a perfectly unremarkable whole made of nothing but stock elements. didn't care for anything here. book is lame & boring.
i'll grant it though: there's a lot of expletives / profanity but it didn't feel too excessive or forced as is usually the case in bad books. the prose wasn't painful to read at least.