A review by tani
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen

3.0

Hmm. This had some really cool ideas, but I felt like they were kind of wasted. The things that I found interesting weren't really explored, and the characters felt really flat to me. The one character that I found most interesting had a lot of time in the story, but didn't really get to accomplish anything. Choices the characters made seemed pretty silly to me, in particular

Spoiler

why would you commit suicide to hide something in a society that is pretty heavily populated with people who can literally speak to the dead? All you do is draw suspicion on yourself, which should be the exact opposite of what you want!

I listened to the audiobook of this, but I honestly didn't much care for the narrator, which didn't help. I don't think he did a bad job, I just didn't care for his style. Still, I listened to the whole thing, so I suppose that says something for it...