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dylankarzen 's review for:
The Genesis of Misery
by Neon Yang
I enjoyed this book well enough most of the way through, but by the end, I couldn't ignore a lot of the issues I had with it anymore. I had to push myself to finish. First off, there is absolutely no depth to the characters. Spider, Tank, Shark...I have no idea who the heck these people are or why I should care about them. The brief glimspes I have of them are basic archetypal (nerd, hacker, pilot) outlines. They never speak more than a few words and don't provide anything to the plot. Secondly, the battle scenes were at the same time too short and very boring. I was super excited when I found out there would be mechs, but they don't do anything. These might as well have just been normal space ships. The other major issue I had was the way people talked. Either the characters were using highly formal language, where everything was redolant with meaning, or they were using cheeky turns of phrase (often in the very next sentence). This felt like it could have used a few more revisions, not like a thoughtful, final piece of fiction.