Reviews

The Forager by Ron Scheer

saralawl's review against another edition

3.0

God, I've been so lazy about writing an actual review for this. So here it is. I liked this book, it was an easy read. It didn't pull me in though, so I kept pushing it aside and reading other books instead. I finished it though! I finished it and then procrastinated on writing a review for it for another few weeks. Because I am a lazy lazy girl.

First off, I want to thank the author for not giving his characters completely ridiculous names in this dystopia. Dillon, the main character is a likeable guy. Josh and Jason are pretty much complete assholes for no valid reason and it was unnecessary. Chane is completely useless, even though the whole point of the story is to save her. Maybe if Scheer had told us more about her it would've been better.

The story itself was good, but I think it needed more world-building. An economic crash is a believable reason for our society to screw up, because it's happened before. But we've also pulled ourselves out of one before.I think the society needed to be better elaborated.

The writing was good, but it could have been been improved with better editing. Sometimes I found the dialogue a bit choppy and unnatural. Good read.