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A review by tatyanavogt
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
3.0
Okay, I HATED this book at first. Like I thought the stuff going on was interesting and that I should like it but the experience of actually reading it was horrible, so much so that I DNF'd it with the intention of not picking it back up and read a different book.
BUT, I kept thinking about it. I wanted to know where the story was going to go, I was invested in this world, fascinated by what was going on and I wanted to know how it was going to end! And I am glad I cam back to it because I started to enjoy the book once the focus shifted and we were working towards better things.
Okay, so it was a hard parallel to swallow that humans were literally a cancer to this living creature since it feels like we're that to earth which is really depressing. I felt so bad for the creature they were killing and cutting into.
I also HATED how the society was structured. So ridged and cruel. It was frustrating to be in a black focused world that was so cruel and unkind so I couldn't enjoy the beauty of the world.
And I just didn't connect with the characters early on so I didn't know why I was suffering through all the uncomfortable bits. Now admittedly that wasn't what I was expecting AND I was going through some shit myself so I wanted a more hopeful book so thats not fully the fault of the book itself just my own expectations.
Once our main characters saw the issues in their society and decided that they needed to do something to turn things around, thats when I stopped hating the book and started looking forward to seeing how things would go.
BUT, I kept thinking about it. I wanted to know where the story was going to go, I was invested in this world, fascinated by what was going on and I wanted to know how it was going to end! And I am glad I cam back to it because I started to enjoy the book once the focus shifted and we were working towards better things.
Spoiler
Okay, so it was a hard parallel to swallow that humans were literally a cancer to this living creature since it feels like we're that to earth which is really depressing. I felt so bad for the creature they were killing and cutting into.
I also HATED how the society was structured. So ridged and cruel. It was frustrating to be in a black focused world that was so cruel and unkind so I couldn't enjoy the beauty of the world.
And I just didn't connect with the characters early on so I didn't know why I was suffering through all the uncomfortable bits. Now admittedly that wasn't what I was expecting AND I was going through some shit myself so I wanted a more hopeful book so thats not fully the fault of the book itself just my own expectations.
Once our main characters saw the issues in their society and decided that they needed to do something to turn things around, thats when I stopped hating the book and started looking forward to seeing how things would go.