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A review by juliusmoose
Forgotten Worlds by D. Nolan Clark
3.0
This book was pretty okay. It had aspects I liked and ones I didn't.
One thing I liked about the previous book was the setting, and I still like it in this book. The way corporations are pretty much running things and are ... not evil exactly but profit-maximizing sociopaths seems pretty accurate. Also the idea of unstoppable robots is kinda cool in a terrifying way.
The prose is kinda choppy. I got used to it after a couple days of reading but it was a bit jarring. Also the space fighting is cool (and less boring than in the first book) but the maneuvers don't really make sense, 'cause there's a lot of swooshing around that would make more sense in atmosphere. Like, that's how a dogfighting airplane would turn. Third, there's one character who I thought was just kinda odd but I was just like, okay space people are weird and space engineers are weird, but then it was sorta hinted he was gay (I guess?) and that was him supposed to be kinda flaming? I don't know, the whole thing was weird. I like queer characters in my books but I like to know they're queer (unless they don't know, that's fine) and also I don't like them to be weird stereotypes. Anyway this character was actually cool and I like him, I just don't like things being weird like that.
There are also a couple things I have mixed feelings about. The main character is an ass and he's a well-described and plausible ass and it's not depicted that his assholeness is good or anything, but he's such a jerk. Also, this whole thing is his quest to fight the space jellyfish who unleashed the unstoppable robots, but that doesn't actually make sense. Like, they unleashed the robots a long time ago! Millions or maybe billions of years ago! That horse has well and truly escaped the barn! Also, the space jellyfish aren't the problem, their killer robots are the problem, and fighting the space jellyfish won't do anything about the robots, because they were unleashed a long-ass time ago. I mean, maybe this will be addressed in the third book?
One thing I liked about the previous book was the setting, and I still like it in this book. The way corporations are pretty much running things and are ... not evil exactly but profit-maximizing sociopaths seems pretty accurate. Also the idea of unstoppable robots is kinda cool in a terrifying way.
The prose is kinda choppy. I got used to it after a couple days of reading but it was a bit jarring. Also the space fighting is cool (and less boring than in the first book) but the maneuvers don't really make sense, 'cause there's a lot of swooshing around that would make more sense in atmosphere. Like, that's how a dogfighting airplane would turn. Third, there's one character who I thought was just kinda odd but I was just like, okay space people are weird and space engineers are weird, but then it was sorta hinted he was gay (I guess?) and that was him supposed to be kinda flaming? I don't know, the whole thing was weird. I like queer characters in my books but I like to know they're queer (unless they don't know, that's fine) and also I don't like them to be weird stereotypes. Anyway this character was actually cool and I like him, I just don't like things being weird like that.
There are also a couple things I have mixed feelings about. The main character is an ass and he's a well-described and plausible ass and it's not depicted that his assholeness is good or anything, but he's such a jerk. Also, this whole thing is his quest to fight the space jellyfish who unleashed the unstoppable robots, but that doesn't actually make sense. Like, they unleashed the robots a long time ago! Millions or maybe billions of years ago! That horse has well and truly escaped the barn! Also, the space jellyfish aren't the problem, their killer robots are the problem, and fighting the space jellyfish won't do anything about the robots, because they were unleashed a long-ass time ago. I mean, maybe this will be addressed in the third book?