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A review by ngallion
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
5.0
Such a weird read. This book feels like a fantasy book about pirates except that it’s a sci-fi book about crews on spaceships. The heavy borrowing of tropes and the general feel from a different genre was very jarring for me for about the first 100 pages, but this book ultimately won me over because the central story along with its various mysteries is compelling.
This is probably the weakest of the five star reads I’ve read this year for the reasons I’ve stated above (I really can’t communicate just how jarring it was to pick this book up at first because of how it feels like it belongs in a completely different type of book than what it seems you’re reading). Despite that, it really was a good time and I’m curious enough about where Reynolds takes things that I might just pick up the next book in the series.
This is probably the weakest of the five star reads I’ve read this year for the reasons I’ve stated above (I really can’t communicate just how jarring it was to pick this book up at first because of how it feels like it belongs in a completely different type of book than what it seems you’re reading). Despite that, it really was a good time and I’m curious enough about where Reynolds takes things that I might just pick up the next book in the series.