zoes_human's review
Are you someone who believes in "boy" books and "girl" books? Do you live in a world of rigid gender rules where your genitalia dictates your reading preferences? Then whip your penis out and get ready to read.
The technical aspects of the writing are fine. In fact, the descriptions are quite vivid. I did consider giving it 3 stars just because the writing does flow very well.
However, it's just. so. stereotypical. It's like all those half hour shows aimed at men. You know the ones where the lead guy used to be a government agent/Navy Seal/cop but then a tragic and crippling accident happens when he was, I don't know, saving a kitten and stopping "scum" from mugging a 400 year old woman for her walker, and he was medically discharged but is still trying to be a force for good in this world. Of course he's still a true believer in goodness despite everything that has happened to him. But don't worry about having to have any feels about all of that, the only emotion existent is stoic machismo.
'Are there women in this book?' you ask. You betcha. Two. The "bitch" politician** who is putting her nose in where it doesn't belong, and the young but plucky - and pretty, obvs - intern who's eager to learn.
And the aliens? Not so much. 87 pages in and I've not seen one yet. They've been implied and something that may or may not have been an alien aircraft whipped through a couple of paragraphs. This book is much more heavily focused on the conspiracy itself than any sort of aliens. It has been called sci-fi, but as far as I'm concerned that's like calling stew vegetable-soup. I mean, yeah, it has carrots in it, but that's hardly the focus of the dish.
**She might actually turn out to be the well-intentioned female politician who just got in over her head because she didn't know how rough the big boys played.
Please note: I DNFed this at page 87, so there could be more women and I'm sure our hero will start to feel things for our plucky girl that he hasn't felt in years.
The technical aspects of the writing are fine. In fact, the descriptions are quite vivid. I did consider giving it 3 stars just because the writing does flow very well.
However, it's just. so. stereotypical. It's like all those half hour shows aimed at men. You know the ones where the lead guy used to be a government agent/Navy Seal/cop but then a tragic and crippling accident happens when he was, I don't know, saving a kitten and stopping "scum" from mugging a 400 year old woman for her walker, and he was medically discharged but is still trying to be a force for good in this world. Of course he's still a true believer in goodness despite everything that has happened to him. But don't worry about having to have any feels about all of that, the only emotion existent is stoic machismo.
'Are there women in this book?' you ask. You betcha. Two. The "bitch" politician** who is putting her nose in where it doesn't belong, and the young but plucky - and pretty, obvs - intern who's eager to learn.
And the aliens? Not so much. 87 pages in and I've not seen one yet. They've been implied and something that may or may not have been an alien aircraft whipped through a couple of paragraphs. This book is much more heavily focused on the conspiracy itself than any sort of aliens. It has been called sci-fi, but as far as I'm concerned that's like calling stew vegetable-soup. I mean, yeah, it has carrots in it, but that's hardly the focus of the dish.
**She might actually turn out to be the well-intentioned female politician who just got in over her head because she didn't know how rough the big boys played.
Please note: I DNFed this at page 87, so there could be more women and I'm sure our hero will start to feel things for our plucky girl that he hasn't felt in years.
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