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A review by meganbeauchamp
No Plain Rebel by M.C. Frank
3.0
After reading this it still bothers me that this is set up in installments. The second installment felt like it could stand on its own a little more then the first, but I still don't get why it had to be like this. It actually makes me less likely to finish.
Overall though I liked seeing so much from Felix's perspective in this book. He is coming alive, he is waking up, and I love watching it. But Astra is a character that I want to see more of, and I wanted more scenes of the two of them interacting. I feel like that is the strongest aspect of the book.
The world created in these books needs more time to be really fleshed out. Mostly we get the history as well as current state from a vis of the clockmaker talking to Felix. It isn't enough though for me to feel really connected.
I really wish these were each full books with just more of everything. They are good now, but could have been something really special. There is a quality about these books, maybe it is the writing, maybe the installments, maybe the plot, but it feels slightly hazy. It is very hard to describe but when I think back and try to describe what happened in the first two, there isn't really a lot. The summary could be a few sentences, and therein lies the haziness. I wish these books were more fleshed out and didn't mention so many little things that the reader has to guess at, or have specific background knowledge to really understand the author's meaning. It just becomes a little lofty and I feel like for some readers, a ton of aspects are probably going right over their heads.
Overall though I liked seeing so much from Felix's perspective in this book. He is coming alive, he is waking up, and I love watching it. But Astra is a character that I want to see more of, and I wanted more scenes of the two of them interacting. I feel like that is the strongest aspect of the book.
The world created in these books needs more time to be really fleshed out. Mostly we get the history as well as current state from a vis of the clockmaker talking to Felix. It isn't enough though for me to feel really connected.
I really wish these were each full books with just more of everything. They are good now, but could have been something really special. There is a quality about these books, maybe it is the writing, maybe the installments, maybe the plot, but it feels slightly hazy. It is very hard to describe but when I think back and try to describe what happened in the first two, there isn't really a lot. The summary could be a few sentences, and therein lies the haziness. I wish these books were more fleshed out and didn't mention so many little things that the reader has to guess at, or have specific background knowledge to really understand the author's meaning. It just becomes a little lofty and I feel like for some readers, a ton of aspects are probably going right over their heads.