astorreinhardt's review
2.0
When a book needs a dictionary of terms for one of your main characters, you lost me.
The idea of this book is a great one. It just didn't take off very well. One of the characters speaks in code (took me half the book to figure out aff meant affirmative.) and the other...symbols? When you waste two pages for just symbols, that's lazy. I don't care if you're a well known author or an indie author; you use symbols to pad your book, it's lazy.
So much of this book just ticked me off. I love the idea of a post apocalyptic Seattle and as I said, the idea/plot was a good one.
You had several good ideas here. Like the neighborhoods all belonging to different factions. And coffee being a big deal (realistic!). But the dialogue sucks. And I couldn't connect to any of the characters nor did I care about any of them.
This book was a big let down and I actually regret buying it.
The idea of this book is a great one. It just didn't take off very well. One of the characters speaks in code (took me half the book to figure out aff meant affirmative.) and the other...symbols? When you waste two pages for just symbols, that's lazy. I don't care if you're a well known author or an indie author; you use symbols to pad your book, it's lazy.
So much of this book just ticked me off. I love the idea of a post apocalyptic Seattle and as I said, the idea/plot was a good one.
You had several good ideas here. Like the neighborhoods all belonging to different factions. And coffee being a big deal (realistic!). But the dialogue sucks. And I couldn't connect to any of the characters nor did I care about any of them.
This book was a big let down and I actually regret buying it.
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