A review by adr_enne_rose
A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King

1.0

Ok. So to be fair, I am not a fan of superhero comics. Or anything that goes on for EVER and EVER in circles and never resolves itself. I broke my teeth on Love and Rockets and Elfquest and even those worried me when they started to grow too long. I've stopped watching Walking Dead because it's Just Another Place to Try to Find Refuge every season. You get the idea.

So that said ...

Those were the WORST first chapters I may have ever read that were written by an adult. The painful repetition and circling of words over. And over. And OVER.

I GET IT. I AM NOT AN IDIOT. I SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOOOOOOING SO STAAAAHHHHP.

Yes, the man desperately needed an editor. But also needs less of a sense of Self and more of a sense of Reader. This book read like he was writing a script for a comic. Without the images, I could not make sense of much of it at all. So what was even the point?

Also? If you can't create a set of characters that I can 1) keep straight because they all have stupid names - even after reading half the book - and 2) I can't identify or sympathize with in ANY way, then you have failed. Your book will fail. And Goodreads will reflect this quite clearly. (Which it did before we started reading it, but I figured I'd give it a fair shake.)

I'm disappointed that I spent money on it. STAAAAAHP