Reviews

Ascension by Nicholas Binge

david44's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

crypticalmoth's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

silenthillda's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

baobaebye's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

lawriebooklist's review against another edition

Couldn't really get into it.

jvssiemay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

natelang's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

storyonlystory's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

dreamingofspaceships's review

2.0

This is a hard one to review and rate. It has a pretty good setup and starts off in an appropriately creepy manner. I was all prepared for a Lovecraftian tale of the incomprehensible and it seemed to be going in that direction - quite quickly too. But then it drops off a cliff (no pun intended) and is just mind-numbingly boring for large sections. I don't understand why people keep thinking that really long drawn out descriptions of walking or hiking is fun to read? And the "answers"/resolutions also seemed a bit... simplistic?

Spoiler

Harold's realisation that the mountain is a "tesseract", Neil being weird and plot relevant, the finding of "folds" by looking at time dilation

all seem too telegraphed or too obvious that it's hard to take them seriously as revelations. The format of INCREDIBLY detailed letters (with entire conversations being recalled verbatim while surviving various threats to life) was starting to get on my nerves too. The ending felt a little cool but this is really nothing that you haven't seen. Two stars does feel a little low, but three seems unconscionably high.

ihateprozac's review

4.0

I was not super convinced by some of the stuff this does with

Spoiler

time

, horror, and weird fiction elements, but I kind of want to revisit it to cement my opinion....