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A review by ribbenkast
The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
The SciFi book club I am in picked this out and I really wanted to like it. Because I talked to friends who already finished it, I went in expecting more of a romance with a SciFi backdrop instead of a full SciFi book but even that couldn't really save it.
The pacing was off from the get go, the romance wasn't slow burn but instead just long winded. I gathered that the author has other books in this setting, but the setting does nothing for the plot. The fact that Rice Fish is not human doesn't seem to matter at all. This book and setting has so many interesting things to explore, even in terms of romance, which are immediately skipped over for a generic romantasy plot.
For two days I dreaded picking up this book wishing I was reading anything else. And maybe I stopped digging right before I hit diamonds. And sorry to my friends who did enjoy it, but life's too short to read books you don't enjoy. So I'm skipping this one.
The pacing was off from the get go, the romance wasn't slow burn but instead just long winded. I gathered that the author has other books in this setting, but the setting does nothing for the plot. The fact that Rice Fish is not human doesn't seem to matter at all. This book and setting has so many interesting things to explore, even in terms of romance, which are immediately skipped over for a generic romantasy plot.
For two days I dreaded picking up this book wishing I was reading anything else. And maybe I stopped digging right before I hit diamonds. And sorry to my friends who did enjoy it, but life's too short to read books you don't enjoy. So I'm skipping this one.