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norma_cenva's review against another edition
1.0
Actual Rating 1.5 Stars
Couldn't connect to the story at all...
Couldn't connect to the story at all...
fiona_callinan's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
sarahmp's review
1.0
How on earth it got 3+ stars I have no idea. What a load of rubbish. I can't believe I wasted my time. I've never frowned so much for so long while reading this. Eurgh.
bookw0rmz's review
2.0
URGH.
I really wanted to love this book because the cover is gorgeous, because it was going to look at a point of view I don't get to read a lot from, and the synopsis sounded great. But I wanted something with excitement and action and suspense all wrapped up in a layer of cool nerdy techy dystopian-ish discourse and I got none of these things.
This book reads like the result of a session of intense intellectual masturbation, where a bunch of interesting concepts are thrown together without really being tied in properly, or developed in an interesting manner. It's such a shame. Within the last hour of listening to the audiobook, you get a massive plot twist that could have been its own great thing, and instead turned into a thinly veiled rant. Not that I disagree with what was said, but it was so last minute and there was so little depth to it that it really wasn't worth adding.
Nothing happens for the longest time, and when something does happen, it doesn't deliver. The book is slow and lacks excitement, and it didn't help that the narrator of the audio book was terrible and his voice acting was piss poor and made the character sound incredibly flat. Although, I didn't feel they really had much depth to them, and it was hard to relate to any of them. I'm still not sure why there are so many unnecessary sex scenes, and I wish the world-building had been up to scratch, but it was all just about lukewarm.
This book also wins the award for the absolute worst ending ever. JFC, don't do that again please, I cringed so much the people on the train stared at me weirdly.
I really wanted to love this book because the cover is gorgeous, because it was going to look at a point of view I don't get to read a lot from, and the synopsis sounded great. But I wanted something with excitement and action and suspense all wrapped up in a layer of cool nerdy techy dystopian-ish discourse and I got none of these things.
This book reads like the result of a session of intense intellectual masturbation, where a bunch of interesting concepts are thrown together without really being tied in properly, or developed in an interesting manner. It's such a shame. Within the last hour of listening to the audiobook, you get a massive plot twist that could have been its own great thing, and instead turned into a thinly veiled rant. Not that I disagree with what was said, but it was so last minute and there was so little depth to it that it really wasn't worth adding.
Nothing happens for the longest time, and when something does happen, it doesn't deliver. The book is slow and lacks excitement, and it didn't help that the narrator of the audio book was terrible and his voice acting was piss poor and made the character sound incredibly flat. Although, I didn't feel they really had much depth to them, and it was hard to relate to any of them. I'm still not sure why there are so many unnecessary sex scenes, and I wish the world-building had been up to scratch, but it was all just about lukewarm.
This book also wins the award for the absolute worst ending ever. JFC, don't do that again please, I cringed so much the people on the train stared at me weirdly.
barrynorton's review
5.0
Full of plot holes, dodgy science and clumsy religious nonsense. But rewarding nonetheless.
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