A review by raven9949
Beacon 23: The Complete Novel by Hugh Howey

dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Okay, so this book is interesting, but unlike the silo series its not very cohesive and there doesn't seem to be a really good over all plotline at all. Each short story has something interesting to it, but nothing that makes it a really good connection to the others. Especially the between Rocky's story and Scarlets, it makes it feel like 
 you are missing something really big like a full chapter or three. The Rocky story is really hard to figure out if this is simply the MC losing his mind or if he's a real thing.... its weirdly morbid in strange moments as well. I don't know, I think I'm just really glad this wasn't the first book of Howey's that I picked up because it's likely I wouldn't read any others with how this one was written.  
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