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A review by hrynkiw
Updraft by Fran Wilde
3.0
Good world-building. I like books that drop me into the middle of an interesting society and don’t feel the need to give me the society’s back-story and just let me learn about it through the activities of the book’s characters.
Good writing, for the most part.
But the story-line is jerky. As if the author felt that the protagonist needed to suffer a little, so rolled back the storyline and added a minor event where the protagonist Does Something Wrong and needs to be punished for it.
Many of the standard tropes seem to be present and so the story is utterly predictable.
Alas, while the good writing and world-building kept me reading through to three-quarters of the way through, it wasn’t enough to keep me interested enough to finish. Abandoned.
Good writing, for the most part.
But the story-line is jerky. As if the author felt that the protagonist needed to suffer a little, so rolled back the storyline and added a minor event where the protagonist Does Something Wrong and needs to be punished for it.
Many of the standard tropes seem to be present and so the story is utterly predictable.
Alas, while the good writing and world-building kept me reading through to three-quarters of the way through, it wasn’t enough to keep me interested enough to finish. Abandoned.