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A review by amarj33t_5ingh
Lament for the Fallen by Gavin Chait
adventurous
challenging
dark
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Gavin Chait presents a high-drive sci-fi laced with all the ingredients of a good blockbuster. Advanced science, super-level evolution, warlords and interstellar nation-states on the verge of imploding. Its all there: the politics, the science and the cataclysmic plot twists. But where does it all go wrong?
Chait unleashes a rip-roaring start which (unfortunately for him) peaks a few pages succeeding and then systematically flattens out. His over-reliance on cliches; excessive invoking of the deus ex machina of science and cliffhanger sequences ending with too convenient solutions emphasize that the author is too invested in the characters. So much so that he barely allows their development. We are disallowed from engaging with the narrative by Chait's tendency to relate rather than narrate. By the time Lament For The Fallen concludes we are already questioning why we even bothered with it.
A monochromatic prose and dull narrative negates whatever value this novel might have otherwise possessed. Science fiction is no fairy tale but Chait conflates the two.
Chait unleashes a rip-roaring start which (unfortunately for him) peaks a few pages succeeding and then systematically flattens out. His over-reliance on cliches; excessive invoking of the deus ex machina of science and cliffhanger sequences ending with too convenient solutions emphasize that the author is too invested in the characters. So much so that he barely allows their development. We are disallowed from engaging with the narrative by Chait's tendency to relate rather than narrate. By the time Lament For The Fallen concludes we are already questioning why we even bothered with it.
A monochromatic prose and dull narrative negates whatever value this novel might have otherwise possessed. Science fiction is no fairy tale but Chait conflates the two.