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Falling Sky by Rajan Khanna
3.0
I thought the premise sounded interesting, but it turns out the writing is kind of blah. Not necessarily bad, but just rather mediocre. No pizzazz. And because I didn’t find the story to be THAT great it just all ended up rather meh for me.
Ben is this rough and tumble guy who ultimately has a heart of gold, but wants to keep it guarded because of the world he lives in. There isn’t too much of a personality going on there aside from a rather standard bad past so he closed off and keeps to himself kind of dude. Nothing spectacular. I think the characters with more potential are the women, but they’re kind of buried behind Ben. Not necessarily in a sexist kind of way, but it’s Ben’s story and women orbit around him for whatever they need (and no, I don’t mean that in a chick magnet kind of way). I think Miranda and Rosie both have a ton of potential and I would like to see Ben get out of the way so I can see those stories because his is kind of meh.
The world itself is just okay. It doesn’t go into too much detail about what happened and how everything crumbled. Literally what you get in the blurb is all you get. So I’m left with a lot of questions that are left unanswered and I’m just left to trust that this is the way it is and I’m not the biggest fan of that. I like a little more depth in my worlds and it seems like in FALLING SKY what happened was just a means to tell a story. It didn’t feel very substantive to me.
FALLING SKY is one of those books where I could keep reading in the series, but I’m not sure how much I’d enjoy the story. I found myself glazing over a fair amount, not necessarily bored with the book, but not all that engaged either. I think there are more substantial post-apocalyptic light sci-fi books out there with worlds that are more fleshed out and more substantive characters than what’s here. Like I said, it’s not bad, but it’s not the greatest either. It just doesn’t have a whole lot of oomph to it.
2.5
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Ben is this rough and tumble guy who ultimately has a heart of gold, but wants to keep it guarded because of the world he lives in. There isn’t too much of a personality going on there aside from a rather standard bad past so he closed off and keeps to himself kind of dude. Nothing spectacular. I think the characters with more potential are the women, but they’re kind of buried behind Ben. Not necessarily in a sexist kind of way, but it’s Ben’s story and women orbit around him for whatever they need (and no, I don’t mean that in a chick magnet kind of way). I think Miranda and Rosie both have a ton of potential and I would like to see Ben get out of the way so I can see those stories because his is kind of meh.
The world itself is just okay. It doesn’t go into too much detail about what happened and how everything crumbled. Literally what you get in the blurb is all you get. So I’m left with a lot of questions that are left unanswered and I’m just left to trust that this is the way it is and I’m not the biggest fan of that. I like a little more depth in my worlds and it seems like in FALLING SKY what happened was just a means to tell a story. It didn’t feel very substantive to me.
FALLING SKY is one of those books where I could keep reading in the series, but I’m not sure how much I’d enjoy the story. I found myself glazing over a fair amount, not necessarily bored with the book, but not all that engaged either. I think there are more substantial post-apocalyptic light sci-fi books out there with worlds that are more fleshed out and more substantive characters than what’s here. Like I said, it’s not bad, but it’s not the greatest either. It just doesn’t have a whole lot of oomph to it.
2.5
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.