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A review by justabean_reads
Beasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo
2.0
I'm trying to figure out why I disliked this book as much as I did.
It didn't really have a plot, so much as a series of events, and I kept waiting for there to be a twist to retroactively shape it into a plot; it never happened. There was a twist, but it felt more like another event in the series than any kind of structural element. The twist was followed by a chapter of graphic torture and then a cliffhanger ending, which didn't endear me to the book, but I like Master and Commander books, and they're notorious for lack of plot and abrupt endings.
I think it was mostly that the book was remarkably free of kindness. Both point of view characters were extremely self-centred so even when they were nice it was to further their own ends, and they responded to screwing up other people's lives by running away and trying not to think about it. The secondary characters were either as bad or worse, and I just wasn't up for an entire novel of mean. Not my thing.
The world building was interesting, though horrifying, and I liked having an older bisexual heroine (even if there were some Tragic Queer elements), but that's all I got on this one. Won't bother with the next.
It didn't really have a plot, so much as a series of events, and I kept waiting for there to be a twist to retroactively shape it into a plot; it never happened. There was a twist, but it felt more like another event in the series than any kind of structural element. The twist was followed by a chapter of graphic torture and then a cliffhanger ending, which didn't endear me to the book, but I like Master and Commander books, and they're notorious for lack of plot and abrupt endings.
I think it was mostly that the book was remarkably free of kindness. Both point of view characters were extremely self-centred so even when they were nice it was to further their own ends, and they responded to screwing up other people's lives by running away and trying not to think about it. The secondary characters were either as bad or worse, and I just wasn't up for an entire novel of mean. Not my thing.
The world building was interesting, though horrifying, and I liked having an older bisexual heroine (even if there were some Tragic Queer elements), but that's all I got on this one. Won't bother with the next.