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jruetschlin's review against another edition
2.0
The ending makes little sense. How is Adelaide surviving without any experience? How did Vikram escape the 70th floor of a collapsing building? Blerg.
erdelafield's review against another edition
4.0
I am still processing this book. Ultimately, I think it is a good novel and an enjoyable one. There are some flaws - what book doesn't have its flaws? - but my response to it is similar to my response to "The Glass Books of the Dream-Eaters."
shopeabam's review against another edition
1.0
DNF. Made it 30% of the way through but it has turned into such a slog that I have no desire to read any more. I have no interest in any of the characters and I’m finding myself bored, desperately waiting for something to happen.
sahcloudy's review against another edition
1.0
Started out with promise. DNF'd. Turned to literal shit, with the actual interesting parts of the plot being drowned by all the fucking love interests.
Adelaide is not a loveable or even admirable character. She's a very easy character to hate, which is not okay considering you, as the reader, are supposed to root for her.
Vikram's personality fizzled out. From cool Mr Rebel Leader to some distant, bland love interest.
The pacing was beyond slow, like, half the shit that happened and was described did fuck all to move the story in any direction aside from down - deeper into a cesspool of filler. Nearing the end, the chapters and sentences themselves lost meaning. So many obscure metaphors, not enough cohesive thought processes. Just words minced together through some random generator.
Oh god, this book pissed me off.
Adelaide is not a loveable or even admirable character. She's a very easy character to hate, which is not okay considering you, as the reader, are supposed to root for her.
Vikram's personality fizzled out. From cool Mr Rebel Leader to some distant, bland love interest.
The pacing was beyond slow, like, half the shit that happened and was described did fuck all to move the story in any direction aside from down - deeper into a cesspool of filler. Nearing the end, the chapters and sentences themselves lost meaning. So many obscure metaphors, not enough cohesive thought processes. Just words minced together through some random generator.
Oh god, this book pissed me off.
winifara's review against another edition
1.0
A DNF for me. It was just too boring and the characters were unlikable, especially the rich girl that was only rebelling against her family because she somehow thought she was better than them. She was just as bad as they were lol.
lauralauralaura's review against another edition
3.0
I mostly responded to the main characters in this book. There were some parts of the world building that felt dystopic and authoritarian for the sake of being such and not because it makes any kind of sense in terms of building a world economy. And yet, I was drawn in enough by the ideas and the plotting that I will read the next book in the series.
blodeuedd's review against another edition
3.0
Osiris was a dream that turned to dust, but then what kind of dystopic post-apocalyptic book would we have if everything did not go to hell?
In this world storms and well everything really turned the world to a wasteland and Osiris was a refuge for some. The rest of the world is dead..or is it? (no really is it? I wanna know!! I guess I have to wait until book 2 for that). But this Oasis is not a happy place. There are citizens who have it all, and then refuges behind a wall who has nothing and freeze to death. The perfect setting to cause some conflict. Especially since our heroine is a spoiled rich girl and the hero a poor Westerner.
The premise is interesting. A city eating itself, but some being to close-minded to see it. A world where I wonder if anyone is alive in the world? Because the rich have secrets.
The characters are not exactly lovable. Adelaide is rich and spoiled, and obsessed with finding her lost brother. Vikram on the other hand is nice, but maybe a bit naive. Sometimes you just have to storm the barricades. But they grow on you.
Osiris has a pace of it's own, it moves slowly, like a dream. And when it ends I do wonder, what's next? I enjoyed it.
In this world storms and well everything really turned the world to a wasteland and Osiris was a refuge for some. The rest of the world is dead..or is it? (no really is it? I wanna know!! I guess I have to wait until book 2 for that). But this Oasis is not a happy place. There are citizens who have it all, and then refuges behind a wall who has nothing and freeze to death. The perfect setting to cause some conflict. Especially since our heroine is a spoiled rich girl and the hero a poor Westerner.
The premise is interesting. A city eating itself, but some being to close-minded to see it. A world where I wonder if anyone is alive in the world? Because the rich have secrets.
The characters are not exactly lovable. Adelaide is rich and spoiled, and obsessed with finding her lost brother. Vikram on the other hand is nice, but maybe a bit naive. Sometimes you just have to storm the barricades. But they grow on you.
Osiris has a pace of it's own, it moves slowly, like a dream. And when it ends I do wonder, what's next? I enjoyed it.
abhrasach's review against another edition
4.0
A multilayered take on an post-cataclysmic future, wondering about the next steps after mere survival. Bleak, but with a lot of good questions and sharp future-building.
majkia's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting and quite different take on a dystopian future
princenbeaux's review against another edition
3.0
This book started out really well, the writing style I loved but I couldn't connect with the characters. The world building was really good but the ending sucked. I know this is going to be a series but it still wasn't much of an ending. It left me feeling unsure of what had happened. Overall, it was a good read and it had a lot of potential that it didn't quite fulfill.