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A review by qalminator
Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns
Did not finish book.
DNF @ 27%.
So ... there's probably a decent story buried somewhere in here. The quality of prose was decent, but there was so much disjointed jumping around from idea to idea and event to event that I just finally gave up.
In the last chapter that I read, Iridian is wondering how to stop Natani and her group from harassing her and Adda. She talks to another crew member about it, then plans to have a talk with Natani, which gets interrupted by an emergency. Iridian's assigned to work with yet another of Natani's group, and does not say a word about this issue to him, despite getting on well with him. Really? Really?!?? That was pretty much the last straw for me.
Additionally, there is constant repetition of things already stated in previous chapters, with nothing new to make it worthwhile to repeat them.
The book is in serious need of a story editor to fix unnecessary repetitions, as well as consistency issues.
ETA: This feels like an "exploration draft", where ideas were written down as they occurred to the writer. There must have been an edit for grammar, but not for consistency and conciseness.
So ... there's probably a decent story buried somewhere in here. The quality of prose was decent, but there was so much disjointed jumping around from idea to idea and event to event that I just finally gave up.
In the last chapter that I read, Iridian is wondering how to stop Natani and her group from harassing her and Adda. She talks to another crew member about it, then plans to have a talk with Natani, which gets interrupted by an emergency. Iridian's assigned to work with yet another of Natani's group, and does not say a word about this issue to him, despite getting on well with him. Really? Really?!?? That was pretty much the last straw for me.
Additionally, there is constant repetition of things already stated in previous chapters, with nothing new to make it worthwhile to repeat them.
The book is in serious need of a story editor to fix unnecessary repetitions, as well as consistency issues.
ETA: This feels like an "exploration draft", where ideas were written down as they occurred to the writer. There must have been an edit for grammar, but not for consistency and conciseness.