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hank 's review for:
Blackfish City
by Sam J. Miller
Beware what you wish for, I think I would have liked this to either be much longer or the first book in a series. You may guess, because of that, that I liked it, and I did but I always felt like I wanted more.
Miller gave us a typical dystopia setup with a novel floating city in the arctic but I would have loved a bit more about how it came to be, differences in the arms, etc. He gave us a nano-bot, human bonding with animals thing that was fascinating and I really wanted to explore that more but the most you get is a glimpse of the feedback. There were genocides, corporate overlords, AIs, pirates, a polar bear and an orca (if that seems like a lot, it was). Then everything hits a brick wall, some characters go splat, the end.
I did become mildly attached to almost all the characters but only mildly, usually the mark of a great book is leaving the reader wanting more but I feel unsatisfied with what Miller gave us, with no more to look forward to.
3 stars for my grouchy, not sure what I want from a book, mood that I am in right now.
Miller gave us a typical dystopia setup with a novel floating city in the arctic but I would have loved a bit more about how it came to be, differences in the arms, etc. He gave us a nano-bot, human bonding with animals thing that was fascinating and I really wanted to explore that more but the most you get is a glimpse of the feedback. There were genocides, corporate overlords, AIs, pirates, a polar bear and an orca (if that seems like a lot, it was). Then everything hits a brick wall, some characters go splat, the end.
I did become mildly attached to almost all the characters but only mildly, usually the mark of a great book is leaving the reader wanting more but I feel unsatisfied with what Miller gave us, with no more to look forward to.
3 stars for my grouchy, not sure what I want from a book, mood that I am in right now.