A review by robin_hood
Breakaway by Michelle Diener

Did not finish book.

1.0

What a letdown after the ‘Class 5’ trilogy! I absolutely binged all three of the ‘Class 5’ books by this author (like 3 books in 3 days...I did not sleep), but I did not even finish the first book of this series, because the story dragged so much, and the characters were so bland and un-compelling. This book is technically also Sci Fi like the ‘Class 5’ books, but the world building/space opera plot is seriously lacking for the ‘Verdant String’ series by comparison, and the actual Sci Fi aspect is not remotely integral to the story. Felt like a possible mob boss story that then was also a sort of a political rebellion story that then weirdly turned into a old timey western mining story? The actual Sci Fi part of the plot was just that everything took place on a “non-Earth” planet... that was exactly like Earth...like as if the author at the end of writing the story went “Oh crap! I forgot to make the book Sci Fi!” and then wrote it in later. Ah well. Sadly, this series is just not for me.