I don't know why I keep giving this author a chance. This is the third or fourth series by her I've read/tried. No, wait, I know why. She comes up witI don't know why I keep giving this author a chance. This is the third or fourth series by her I've read/tried. No, wait, I know why. She comes up with decent set-ups but she always fucks it up. Like this one, where the girl is the lowest of the low, bottom of pack, because her dad tried to kill the alpha. She's treated like shit and her true mate is the alpha's son, who rejects her. This is a GOOD set-up but that's not what this book is about. It's about a girl in this situation who is quickly saved by a God and we see all the God like shit. The good cloths, the handsome people, the lavish lifestyle, etc. etc.
That's like, all her books. There's an interesting set-up and then a literal God will pluck the heroine from there and put her in the lap of luxury and we find out that the heroine is always, ALWAYS a God too, she just doesn't know it. It's so fucking predictable. The audio of the book is 11hrs and I finished it in under 8 because I was skimming so much. It's just boring, the endless descriptions of the paradise, the God, how she's slowly becoming a God, etc. Bleh.
All her books are like this. It's just copy-paste with a new set-up....more
I started this with a lot of hope. The premise sounded awesome. It sounded like a Soul Eater thing but with mystical were-beasties. That is not what yI started this with a lot of hope. The premise sounded awesome. It sounded like a Soul Eater thing but with mystical were-beasties. That is not what you get, but the premise is still interesting. That's the only good thing about the book.
Sardis -- the MC, Sardis, was written like a 10 year old trapped in an 18 year old body. Given the circumstances, it was completely and utterly unbelievable. Like, achingly so. This is a woman who lost both parents young, who worked at a factory for years, who's brother disappeared and presumably died, who was kidnapped by slavers, who was beaten and treated poorly in their care, who was then sold into this slavery situation where she's forcibly changed against her will, and she acts like a naive child the entire book.
For example, throughout the book, she hooked on the idea that, because she saw her last name in a ledger (and her last name is strange), that this person must be a relative and will save her. She's never met this man before. She didn't met him when her parents were alive. He wasn't there for her when she was an orphan or when her brother disappeared or when she became a slave or after, but she has this childish belief that this random stranger is family and (I quote) "Family is forever" so he'll of course save her from all the evil things.
She doesn't think about her actions at all. She never plans. She didn't even plan her escape. She just walked out. Half the book is just a reaction to her stupidity. Like, she knows she's being hunted but she does dumb shit all the fucking time. "Oh, this random kid wants to know all about me. I'll tell him all my plans." Guess who that kid was working for? "Oh, I'm safe in my hidey hole and no one knows I'm here, but I'm bored and hungry so I'll go wander outside." Guess who gets captured? "Oh, if my master ever finds out I remember things during the transformation, really bad things will happen." Guess who tells him that?
She also literally believes anything anyone tells her. Her old master, who recaptures her, feeds her a line a BS and she never questions it. She never questions anything this horrible, evil man tells her. She never questions anything anyone tells her.
The Romance -- was painful to me because I honestly pictured this character as 10 and the love interest is like 30. I was honestly glad when he (view spoiler)[betrayed her there (hide spoiler)] because I felt she deserved it after all the shit she put him through from her stupidity.
The plot -- is nonexistent. It's basically Sardis is a slave and walks away. Her master isn't happy so he follows her. She finds Rone and he decides to drop everything in his life to save her (constantly), because he's the "nice guy". It's basically 300 pages of her being chased. This would've been okay if Sardis wasn't a fucking idiot or if there was time spent on learning to control her summon or magic. But, nope, it was just her getting chased with her mad desire to find this supposed uncle because "family is forever."
The plot inconsistencies -- drove me crazy. This was such laziness. These inconsistencies were changed because of the plot so you know she was just too lazy to go back and edit the story. For example, we are told like a thousand times that getting out of the city (and the country) is nearly impossible. You need papers, etc. So they get out (with papers, etc.) -- including a skit that she's pregnant and sick to gain sympathy and leniency from the guards, which they grant -- and not half a chapter later we're told it's very easy to go in and out of the city because (surprise) the author wants the characters to make a mad dash inside.
Or another part were we're told that the summoned creatures are invincible but the vessels can be hurt before the summoning and later we're told that whatever happens to summoned creature happens to the vessel. This was, of course, during a battle. Bleh....more
I did want to like this more but, for me, the over all experience was Meh. It's Meh with a soap opera mixed in. There was just so much melodrama in thI did want to like this more but, for me, the over all experience was Meh. It's Meh with a soap opera mixed in. There was just so much melodrama in this one and the one plot twist is something you'd expect out of a spanish novella.
And, more than anything, it just felt like covered ground. Other than the one bit of plot backstory that turned this into a novella, it was all just recycled stuff. Jill's been kidnapped once already. The way that whole thing resolved happened once already. The villains are old villains.
The sea witch is really the only redeeming part of this book for me.
If there'd been some mother-daughter time, maybe this book would've gotten 3 stars (then, at least, it wouldn't've felt like we spent the whole book listening to her moan about her lost daughter for the whole book for nothing) but they spent like 5 minutes together. It was like 'oh, not dying anymore. I can go back to pretending I have no daughter again luls'....more
I gave this book 53% but I just can't go on. There were portions where I felt Amani had spirit but, in general, she was rather dull. This is, pretty mI gave this book 53% but I just can't go on. There were portions where I felt Amani had spirit but, in general, she was rather dull. This is, pretty much, the most generic type of YA novel: let's overthrow the big, bad government with a couple of kids. JFC, save me from these kinds of books.
And the description reads like at least it'll be in space and interesting but NOPE! Not happening. The "space" or "scifi" aspect of this book is basically non-existent. This book felt like it was first written to be fantasy or historical and then had the "scifi" added as an afterthought.
It's a big ridiculous because we're told both cultures have the technology to do AWESOME stuff, but it's never seen. Like the oppressed culture terraformed their moons yet they're still using horses to get around and writing on paper. Or the Vath (the villainous culture), whom came from a different solar system entirely and conquered this world, can't protect their Princess from guns any better than a body double.
Besides flying from the moon to the planet, or visa versa, along with the occasional android, there's no scifi. I'd be reminded that this was a scifi by them mentioning they were on the moon.
Which brings up a whole set of legistics the author didn't even bother to explain.
Bleh. I'd read a chapter and just put the book down. Once the "chosen one" stepped on scene, I had to set this one down for good....more
I don't know if it was expectations of this being a horror book or what. I I... I didn't like this much.
I KNOW! I KNOW! Stop looking at me like that.
I don't know if it was expectations of this being a horror book or what. I enjoyed the writing in itself. I liked the characters and I felt like she did an okay job separating them all out. The horror elements were scary. I should've at least liked this book.
I think, for me, the problems where the continuous cycling of POV characters (there were MANY for such a short book) along with the ending.
When we'd get to a scary bit, we'd quickly be ported away again, and the next time we'd see the character, he'd be okay. There was no building the tension up at all. Since the book is written from a future POV, it's not really written in chronological order.
But I kept waiting for this ending that never happened. The only constant thing in all the POVs across the entire book was the person hinting about "what happened to Julian" and "that girl". Over and over and over we are told this.
Then you get to the end and it turns out that no one saw anything so it felt so incredibly anti-climatic to me. I also found it highly incredulous that Julian's dissappearance would've been scary enough to send everyone packing. I mean, when you considered it to the other events that happened to these people and they all being like 'yo, wazzzup' about it all. And then Julian dissappears and no one sees a damn thing and they're all so freaked out about this thing no one saw that none stayed to search for him?
I really wanted to like this. Honestly. It was just way too rambling for my liking. There was almost no chapters. Maybe 5? In a book this length? It'sI really wanted to like this. Honestly. It was just way too rambling for my liking. There was almost no chapters. Maybe 5? In a book this length? It's like 500+ pages long.
He just picked a section of the world and sort of rambled on and on about it, eventually coming to a point and going back and rambling on about the history back up to present. It was entirely unstructured. There really was no rhyme or reason for what he decided to delve into.
For example, he spends an ENORMOUS about of time with South Africa and the prison there, when it was admitted to him from the beginning that they didn't have much to do with Shakespeare. How many interviews does it take to get this across? I mean, these men are 80+ years old. Was it necessary to track every one down to tell him the same thing? It's not that I don't find the history in South Africa to be interesting but I'm not reading the book for that.
Or how he spent an inordinate amount of time describing the on-going construction of various theater houses in England, and abroad, and how they were either recreations of Shakespeare's old theaters or replicas of ones he might've set his plays in, etc. Personally, the building of such things is like so far below what I consider to be the most interesting aspects of the famous bard that it quickly became a slog.
This could entirely be my expectations, though. I was expecting more of a scholarly approach to how Shakespeare influenced the world, as well as the ways other (non-western) cultures have approached or used this stuff. We get a bit of that, but not much.
So, honestly, take this review with a grain of salt. It could be something you'll really enjoy. It just wasn't for me personally....more
Meh. All around, mostly boring. It wasn't bad enough that I'd want my life back again. It was all just very ... scattered, I suppose. There were SO maMeh. All around, mostly boring. It wasn't bad enough that I'd want my life back again. It was all just very ... scattered, I suppose. There were SO many plot threads and side thingies that nothing got explored in detail and so there wasn't any depth.
The reactions of Rose seemed really off putting too. Like, half the time it seemed like she hated her mother, and said as much, but then she stayed there with her, basically like a maid. If she was so terrible growing up and if things were that bad, why not move out? Even if she didn't have a spine? There was the dichotomy that I'm to get across. The author was telling us one thing and the reactions, thoughts, stuff she did was very different.
There was the whole psychic thing that's never fully discussed. It felt like more of a plot point to drive the story and kind of fuel the "suspense". It didn't feel like it belonged.
And, of course, the murder. It was pretty much out of the story. We're told she's under suspicion, but almost nothing happens on that end for much of the book. We're just told this. She goes to the police station right in the beginning and once after that, but it's like it never really happened. She had to continuely bring it up because it was so nonexistent....more
I tried but this is simply bad. The technical writing part is okay. It's just the story itself. There really isn't a story here. Everything is so forcI tried but this is simply bad. The technical writing part is okay. It's just the story itself. There really isn't a story here. Everything is so forced and artificial to the point where you simply can't invest anymore. There is a lot of disbelief you have to suspend when it's horror AND more when it's ghostly in nature. This book managed to totally overflow even that huuuge lake of suspended disbelief.
Nothing the MC does is reasonable in any way. It's so bad that it throws you out of the story. It felt like the author had the story seed but simply didn't take the time to develop it correctly so everything she does is stupid. By "day 3", I truly was like 'damn it! why didn't that kill her?!'
For example, she's been in this house for 24 hours or so (she's housesitting) and she's been scared by scary noises she's heard. We're told she's TERRIFIED! So much that she flees the house and calls the homeowners.
So, hours after she flees the house (she's talked back in by the homeowner: 'old houses make lots of noises, etc.'), she is scared awake by a sound and a bad dream in the middle of the night. We're told she's scared. She can hear scary noises. Remember that scared part. So what does she do?
She decided, at 3am, to light a candle and explore this house she's supposedly scared of with ONLY A CANDLE. She was initially thinking that someone must be in the house with her. Who does this? I rolled my eyes when she's inevitably scared and drops the candle, thus losing all light. I saw this coming a MILE away. It was so forced! I rolled my eyes so hard I was afraid they'd fall out.
Or, not a couple hours later, she goes to a basement (that has no lights -- who builds a basement with no lights? Anyone? Come on now? There aren't even candle holders? REALLY?! Apparently the homeowners have EXCELLENT night vision), with only her cellphone (we apparently forgot that we have a flashlight and candles), only to see some ubber creepy occult thing that says some nonsense about the old owners.
Instead of thinking 'hey, perhaps they're just worried about all the deaths and thinking god has forsaken them like any normal family might', she decides she must go into the crypt out back to find this book that'll have secrets. This girl has literally spent only like 48 hours in this house. Only 48 or so hours and she's wanting to break into a freakin' grave for mysterious answers.
We get the knock-out scene that's an info dump of past events and on and on.
It's like one cliche after another. Horror is filled with cliche's but the fact that everything is artificial, everything is forced, and there is literally no reason for the MC to be doing anything in this book that makes it a terrible read.
Disappointing. =/ This felt like book 2 in this series to me. That is, more about the other characters than the main ones. At least I liked them more Disappointing. =/ This felt like book 2 in this series to me. That is, more about the other characters than the main ones. At least I liked them more than the ferryman and all of them. So, there was that.
And now, I just can't stop it. I'm having serious world building issues. I've tried to hold it off but now that there are global issues, I just can't... It's all just ... stupid. The HFL "plan" was stupid. What the Others did was stupid. And it made no sense. I get that it was meant to be a distraction but think about it. It makes no sense. The countries aren't connected for one. They're completely different continents. And the attack was done basically at the same time.
What was the distraction?
It's as stupid as, say, attacking NYC USA to be a "distraction" for your real target: Sydney Australia. Like, what? How would this work? It's not a distraction, even if you made it so it was staggered a bit. It's like stupid. That's something a 5 year old would think was smart. That's two different countries on two different continents. 5 I also chuckle that anyone would think the "battle" would be over from that first volley of fires. Really? Where are we? Pre WW2 Poland?
I have issues with the Others too. They were white knighted, again, in this. Look. I'm sorry but I think it's absolutely wrong to white knight them. The Others are just as wrong as the Humans, as far as I'm concerned. We see the sanctions now but we forget that the Others would kill and eat any human unlucky enough to go on their land before all this. I think the human anger in this is justified to a point. The Others aren't these nice, hippy children and I find this relationship just strange.
I also find the relationship between the "Elders" and the normal Others to be strange too. Is there a species that acts like this? Do lions or tigers go after people who kick house cats? The normal Other's are afraid of them yet we're to believe that these Elders learned all from humans? What exactly are they learning?
How soon we forget the backstory here. How soon we forget that the normal Others punished even one death by killing the entire human settlement. You can't tell us this is what the Others do and then try to martyr them in the next breath.
I also don't believe the humans wouldn't know about what's in the wild places. That's just stupid. I'm sorry but it is. No one actually believed in Dragons. No ship captain actually believed he'd fall off the edge of the world. You can't live with something like that and not know.
I dislike the term elder too, if elder only means how long the variety has held on shape vs how long the individuals have lived (in the traditional sense of the word.) I'm sorry. I just don't buy that but I'm a woman. I also don't believe I need a dick to think rationally.
I think both humans and others are bad. They're both terrible species. Let's be honest. This series has just made it seem like the humans were the only bad ones. That's always bugged me....more
I wanted to like this more but it got my on nerves too much. The author wanted to write a book about characters in an UF world who aren't rating: 2.5
I wanted to like this more but it got my on nerves too much. The author wanted to write a book about characters in an UF world who aren't part of the UF world and failed. IMO. It's just my opinion.
The first problem is MC. I really hated him. Halfway through and I wanted him dead. I was so annoyed by his endless angry and I just wanted to world to kick him.
And then there was his OCD. Now, this probably isn't something anyone without OCD would understand. I have OCD. Legit, professionally diagnosed OCD. It's like the author read the wiki page on OCD and went from there. It's all so wrong. He doesn't even try to keep to a category. It's all just blurred and that's not how it is. You can feel the different kinds of OCD shift in your life. It's not like an all-you-can-eat buffet where you pick what you want.
Perhaps it's just that I see this disorder used so often and so badly that it really frustrates me to tears. Perhaps I'd've been a bit more open about it if it were the first but it isn't. /sigh
The other big issue is this world building. In his attempt to keep his characters as normal and non-uf as possible, he completely neglects any and all world building. The entire world building can be explained in a sentence or two. Seriously.
Like, 'Indies' are the only ones who have to deal with UF stuff. They're the 'special' kids and all have weird names like Finn. Every 8 years or so, a wave of UF stuff happens. Who know why.
This is literally all the world building we're given. The author was so lax about this that the only way to tell if someone is an Indie is supposedly by their name. Really?
And still it's more interesting than watching the MC be an ass or think about his feelings....more
I wanted to like this more. Honestly! It's really hard to rate this book but I'm not certain if that's disappointment. This was given so mrating: 2.5
I wanted to like this more. Honestly! It's really hard to rate this book but I'm not certain if that's disappointment. This was given so much hype lately now that book 2 is out and I've always heard this author's name being bandied about before then but this ...
Well, the plot is extremely thin for the length of this book. That's the first thing. You know, you'll hear people say they felt a book was a place holder, even though it's the first book, and I've always scoffed at that because, ya know, it's the first book but this was what this book felt like. It honestly did.
What tiny plot we're given is overshadowed by this supposed huge, ubber evil that's "coming". It's always "coming" and seeing how the monster-of-the-day is damn near the anti-christ, I can already tell I'm going to be disappointed.
The villain, now that we're on the subject, is so laughable that it isn't funny. T^T Really. All he basically does is hum, sing the same song, be evil-like, and kill people. There's no depth to him.
The main MC (ha!) was completely annoying. I thought her reaction to some things was bizarre. But, on the other hand, I felt a huge amount of annoyance that she was willing just to take the crap dished out to her. Very conflicted feelings towards her!
This book is fill with a shit-ton of character and many, many POVs and at the end of the day 95% of them SHOULD NOT be in this book. They have no purpose in this thin plot. They bring nothing to the table. They don't drive the plot forward.
This is why this book feels like a place holder to me. I finished this and actually felt frustrated because there are so many characters to keep straight and almost all had no point.
I dunno. I have the second book so I'll give that one a shot......more
This was decent and I was going to give this a 3.5 stars rounded it. The mystery was okay and for the most part I was all:
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Wow. Disappointing. It's bad enough that I'm thinking about taking the second star off. I only put it there because most of this was okay.
But the ending! The ending...!
It made no sense and in no way did it conclude anything. It seems like most of the 'hints' we got were just BS. It's not credible in the least. I call BS on the identity of the killer.
What's more, we get no answers about anything else. I guess Bill just fades away? The one thing that started this whole mess (the flowers) is NEVER SOLVED. It's treated like the rest of this book and just shrugged off with an 'I guess I'll never know' explanation. I wish I were kidding. >_>
This ending felt so cheap. I'm all for red herrings and all that but to throw basically everything out with the baby and say 'hahaha' (basically), it feels like a slap in the face. Who, outside of a random guess, could've guessed the killer?
I'm not sure if I'll read anything else by this author again. Seriously. I made me think 'so I spent actual money on this book and my time and all that, and the answer I'm given to this whole mess is a who knows?! well, who knows if I'll ever read her books again either.'...more
Arg! So disappointing! The sad thing was that I had a feeling it wouldn't get better but I kept with it in hopes that it would! It never did.
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This whole book was a mess. It was obvious that the author couldn't make up her mind which direction she wanted to go (whether it be a ghost tale or shape shifters, etc.) so it all felt unsupported. And it all felt way to contrived and convenient, especially at the end there with the mother. It's like Rose isn't going to realize she's there, dragging bodies away? Oh but the author needed a reason for the fact that there was no body there so she just burped up the first one she thought of. That's how this book all felt. Half formed ideas and half assed ways getting out of them.
I felt very annoyed that there was no resolution with Rose's parents. I wanted there to be SOMETHING, ANYTHING! Hello worst parents of the 19th century. And the "twist" is supposed to redeem them? Ha!
And this book all hinged on one of my greatest story pet peeves: that is, not telling the major characters important family history that could have direct relevance on them. The excuse why they didn't is generally 'well, I was watching them to make certain no one got hurt...' I'm so sick of this. This is not a valid excuse.
I wish some authors would apply this flimsy logic to any other family problem. Let's take heart disease. So your grandparents and you uncle all has heart disease. Aren't you going to tell you children that heart disease runs in the family? WTF would you keep that to yourself?! If you said 'well, I was watching them to make certain no one got hurt', pretty much everyone would call you a BAD PARENT. And you would be a BAD PARENT because that's needed information.
FFS! Come up with some better excuse than this. You're writers. You make up books whole cloth and you can't take the extra time needed to get rid of this kind of cliche BS!?
Such a disappointment for me. Everyone and their pets was recommending these books and I really do love LGTB books. It's a strange, guilty pleasure ofSuch a disappointment for me. Everyone and their pets was recommending these books and I really do love LGTB books. It's a strange, guilty pleasure of mine. I truly wanted to like this more but it didn't rise about 'meh'. The writing was decent but everything else was just off.
The biggest problem is that there isn't any plot to speak of and the second biggest problem is that the MC is really dull and whiny. You just follow the guy around while he thinks supposed deep thoughts (which are almost always on Dante.) It's clear from the beginning how this is going to end so there wasn't even any surprise in that.
What small plot threads we are given are almost entirely ignored at the end or disappear. We're given half a dozen but he never really takes any and runs with it. The two really traumatic events (or, perhaps, the only really interesting parts) that take place during the book aren't show to the reader. We're told later about them.
Ari really got to me above everything else though. All he did was complain. He complained about him not having a life and about his brother and about pretty much everything else but he does absolutely nothing about any of it. He never does. Even when he has the answers in his hands, he still waits for others to tell him. Hell, in the end, he needs to be told his own feelings.
His mothers reaction to his older brother was baffling to me. I'm sorry. I just can't see any mother doing that for what her son did. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying she shouldn't grieve for him. I'm just saying the length and depth of that (and what happened to Ari) was baffling to me.
His brother, though, was so anti-climatic. I was expecting more from that and it was just like an 'oh' thing to me.
In the end, this book is about a boy named Ari who thinks angry thoughts and does nothing on his own initiative. If you like that sort of angsty thing, you'll love this book. It simply wasn't my cup of tea....more
I found absolutely nothing in this book to be even remotely worthwhile. It's one horrifying mess from start to finish in just about every way possibleI found absolutely nothing in this book to be even remotely worthwhile. It's one horrifying mess from start to finish in just about every way possible. If I could give this book negative stars, I'd do that.
But I digress.
Let me start by saying I'm biased. I'm a character person. I'd go for a strong character with a weak plot over the alternative and the character thing is a large part of my, erm, hate. I love McGuire's books. She's on my short list to buy when they come out. I think I may be stopping that. Well then...
Let's start with Alex... I can't stand this character. I finished this book with the hope that Alex would die at the end. I truly did and that didn't happen... Well, a girl can dream. He's the most boostful character I've ever read. If he's not whining about his 'duties' and how he never asked for any of this, he's tell us how strong he is and smart he is and how much he's sacrificed and bleh bleh bleh.
When Alex goes into one of this internal dialogues, this song starts playing a loop in my head: https://youtu.be/bolBQL_ztZo I'm seriously not kidding.
If that's not enough, Alex leaps head first into a great many 'I told you so's. He's not obnoxious enough, right?
I've come to the conclusion that McGuire just can't write decent male POVs. They're all so cliche it hurts. Which is baffling because McGuire is such a good writer and male POV is universal. I mean, we're basically raised on male POV books from our first books and McGuire is just so utterly terrible at them. The men in her books that don't have a POV are great, which is another layer of bafflement.
The story is, to put it mildly, horrible and stupid. The plot basically hinges on everyone being complete and utter morons. Every plot turn is because someone did something stupid. The characters reactions to everything is stupid too. It's stupid on the level of 'how are they still alive.'
Here are some examples:
The leaders of this group have an arsenal of weapons and all that. Do they treat this with the seriousness it warrants? Of course not! How then would the plot continue? So what did they do with this arsenal? They gave every member of the organization free access to everything. Seriously. There's not even a 'fill out yourself' log.
WTF is that? I've worked many jobs and even my first job in a movie theater had more responsibility in the way we dealt with the discarded 5 cent cups that this group does. Of course, this becomes a plot point. OMG! Someone switched their ammo out with fakes. COULDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING A MILE AWAY.
This brilliant group is brilliant. For a morgue, they have a metal shed with a lock. This shed isn't guarded and it's in the summer. This made it conveniently easy for the villain to escape. When Alex asked about this, he was told that this is where they 'put the bodies' until they can feed them to the alligators. Let's just forget the part where he's possibly infected and animals can catch it by eating the infected.
It would be a fun parody except McGuire was being serious. I can't tell if this book was just a contract book and she didn't give a fuck or if ... Well, no. She's a great author. This was definitely a contract book that she shit out and tossed to the publishers.
Besides the stupid that's EVERYWHERE, we also get major doses of deus ex machina and a morality tale. Seriously. Ridiculous amounts of deus ex machina. The mice are deus ex machina. At the end there, he's basically saved by (view spoiler)[a doorbell. Seriously. They start up all this 'we're GOING TO KEEL YOU DEAD! And then seriously stop to answer the fucking door (hide spoiler)]. At this point, you don't even care. It's so deus ex machina that you just it to end.
Then the morality bits are wonderful. If Alex wasn't obnoxious enough, we get his many, many, maaaaaaaaaaaaaany inner lectures about how terrible this group is for seeing the monsters as 'monsters'. Of course we get to the part where a 'monster' asks why Alex didn't kill them and Alex said, all innocent morality with shining eyes, 'but doesn't everyone deserve to live?' and we get another lecture from this 'monster' telling us how it's okay to kill these.
It brought back terrible memories of that horrible morality tale Card shoved in his book (where the lone character who wanted to save the planet turned around and said KILL THEM ALL and the people who had wanted to KILL THEM ALL get to shake their heads and share with this character that KILLING THEM ALL is a terrible thing.)
Now add all the above with a knowledge that the first 15% ~ 20% is spent largely on recapping what happened before and you start to suddenly wish you'd not learned how to read. I just can't anymore......more
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