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Eris
by Larry Gaudet
Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy this book at all. This was a great premise, poorly executed. If it was any longer then I would probably have DNF’d it.
This book is a multi-person first person narrative. This should fit well with this type of book so we get all the different characters’ perspectives - hero, anti-hero, baddie, etc. Using this approach should move the story on in a dynamic way. Sadly it’s doesn’t do this. All of the voices sounded really similar to me & I don’t think I’d have known who was speaking if the name wasn’t at the top of each chapter. It also felt like you were just dropped into their story so you didn’t feel like you knew what was going on, or even if you were a man/woman, old/young etc in some cases.
One bonus is the prose was easy to read, although the chat room speak wasn’t particularly engaging for me.
All in all I found the book hard to follow & I struggled to care what was going on. By the end, one fed the other.
I really wanted to enjoy this book. I was hopeful that it could be something gripping but it just wasn’t there. It felt like the prequel to a series, where the characters & the world were set up in the original book & you were expected to have read that first to understand. Instead you were dropped into this, not knowing what’s going on & it was jarring. I hate giving one star to any book where someone has worked so hard but I’ve found it so hard to find some redeeming qualities to bump this up. I definitely wouldn’t spend my hard-earned cash on it.
Thanks to the author, publishers & NetGalley for giving me access to this ARC in return for an honest review.
This book is a multi-person first person narrative. This should fit well with this type of book so we get all the different characters’ perspectives - hero, anti-hero, baddie, etc. Using this approach should move the story on in a dynamic way. Sadly it’s doesn’t do this. All of the voices sounded really similar to me & I don’t think I’d have known who was speaking if the name wasn’t at the top of each chapter. It also felt like you were just dropped into their story so you didn’t feel like you knew what was going on, or even if you were a man/woman, old/young etc in some cases.
One bonus is the prose was easy to read, although the chat room speak wasn’t particularly engaging for me.
All in all I found the book hard to follow & I struggled to care what was going on. By the end, one fed the other.
I really wanted to enjoy this book. I was hopeful that it could be something gripping but it just wasn’t there. It felt like the prequel to a series, where the characters & the world were set up in the original book & you were expected to have read that first to understand. Instead you were dropped into this, not knowing what’s going on & it was jarring. I hate giving one star to any book where someone has worked so hard but I’ve found it so hard to find some redeeming qualities to bump this up. I definitely wouldn’t spend my hard-earned cash on it.
Thanks to the author, publishers & NetGalley for giving me access to this ARC in return for an honest review.