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A review by readerpants
Redsight by Meredith Mooring
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.0
DNF'd at 60% (!). I just couldn't finish - I rarely give up on a book so far in just because at that point there's a sunk cost feeling, but I just can't do another 40%.
This wasn't TERRIBLE, but neither was it good. The worldbuilding was patchy enough that it was hard to stay in the story, and the inconsistencies just made that worse. A character shifts into a snake creature; the first few times she has to take her clothes off, then weirdly she doesn't. Same character, thousands of years old and deeply rooted in her love for her beliefs/people is suddenly like "oh no this person saw the monstrous shape of my real snake creature self," when there's absolutely no indication that she had that kind of self-loathing previously. Also, some of the mechanics of vision or lack thereof just didn't make sense? She needs tactile text to read, and there are tools that can help translate other types of physical writing into tactile writing, cool -- but then she's able to see and analyze the visual projection of the map that's shown in a big ship officers meeting? Also, I'm definitely not a fan of the hand-wavy, unexamined (as of 60% through) insta love and then sexy times of a 20-year-old with a millennia old character.
Maybe it was kind of terrible. This had a massively long hold list on it at the public library so obviously it's working for some folks... YMMV.
This wasn't TERRIBLE, but neither was it good. The worldbuilding was patchy enough that it was hard to stay in the story, and the inconsistencies just made that worse. A character shifts into a snake creature; the first few times she has to take her clothes off, then weirdly she doesn't. Same character, thousands of years old and deeply rooted in her love for her beliefs/people is suddenly like "oh no this person saw the monstrous shape of my real snake creature self," when there's absolutely no indication that she had that kind of self-loathing previously. Also, some of the mechanics of vision or lack thereof just didn't make sense? She needs tactile text to read, and there are tools that can help translate other types of physical writing into tactile writing, cool -- but then she's able to see and analyze the visual projection of the map that's shown in a big ship officers meeting? Also, I'm definitely not a fan of the hand-wavy, unexamined (as of 60% through) insta love and then sexy times of a 20-year-old with a millennia old character.
Maybe it was kind of terrible. This had a massively long hold list on it at the public library so obviously it's working for some folks... YMMV.