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rincondejoss's review
3.0
I got this one for an honest review.
Now I'm getting to see that with this author for some reason I get to like the endings a lot, but at some point at the beginning of the story it's a little hard to follow all the things that are happening.
The story is interesting nonetheless just you will need to get past the confusion and all the things happening too fast at times.
Overall it's entertaining.
Now I'm getting to see that with this author for some reason I get to like the endings a lot, but at some point at the beginning of the story it's a little hard to follow all the things that are happening.
The story is interesting nonetheless just you will need to get past the confusion and all the things happening too fast at times.
Overall it's entertaining.
bigjohnny's review
1.0
What an absolute mess of a book.
None of the characters in this book ever really feel developed, and this makes it very hard for the reader to care when things abruptly happen to them in the story.
What we do know about characters doesn't matter because characters only act the way they are described when it is convenient. For example, Peter is described as having glasses and asthma. This, of course, means that he's a big nerd and can't even go for a walk without getting winded, but when his parents die and he wants to go on a suicide mission, we are supposed to believe that he's capable of killing the demons that slaughtered the British army. This really makes it hard to care about Peter at all.
The pacing was also horrible; things just happen without ever being explained or elaborated on. In the middle of the book, the main villain introduces a plague that kills off half the population in the entire planet. It is only briefly and casually mentioned, and doesn't seem to have any effect on the story. It just is a thing that happens to exist in this universe, and that is a complaint that can be made of a lot of what happens in this book. Things just kind of happen there is no pay off or build up, and things that could be really cool end up feeling really stupid.
My final grievance is that narration is distracting. The first three chapters of this book faithfully follow the thoughts of three different central characters, with each chapter introducing a new character and only following events through their perspective. After the third chapter, the book decides it would be easier to cram more 'things' into each chapter if it switched between the perspective of characters at a whim in the middle of each chapter. This is incredibly jarring, especially when it starts following characters in completely different locations doing things completely separate from the previous characters. There's also several instances where two opposing characters meet in the book and we are given both of their perspectives, this removing any potential suspense that would have been created from not informing the audience if the intentions of both parties.
None of the characters in this book ever really feel developed, and this makes it very hard for the reader to care when things abruptly happen to them in the story.
What we do know about characters doesn't matter because characters only act the way they are described when it is convenient. For example, Peter is described as having glasses and asthma. This, of course, means that he's a big nerd and can't even go for a walk without getting winded, but when his parents die and he wants to go on a suicide mission, we are supposed to believe that he's capable of killing the demons that slaughtered the British army. This really makes it hard to care about Peter at all.
The pacing was also horrible; things just happen without ever being explained or elaborated on. In the middle of the book, the main villain introduces a plague that kills off half the population in the entire planet. It is only briefly and casually mentioned, and doesn't seem to have any effect on the story. It just is a thing that happens to exist in this universe, and that is a complaint that can be made of a lot of what happens in this book. Things just kind of happen there is no pay off or build up, and things that could be really cool end up feeling really stupid.
My final grievance is that narration is distracting. The first three chapters of this book faithfully follow the thoughts of three different central characters, with each chapter introducing a new character and only following events through their perspective. After the third chapter, the book decides it would be easier to cram more 'things' into each chapter if it switched between the perspective of characters at a whim in the middle of each chapter. This is incredibly jarring, especially when it starts following characters in completely different locations doing things completely separate from the previous characters. There's also several instances where two opposing characters meet in the book and we are given both of their perspectives, this removing any potential suspense that would have been created from not informing the audience if the intentions of both parties.
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