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A review by spoerk
Sip by Brian Allen Carr
3.0
Thanks to Netgalley for giving me this opportunity to read this book for an honest review.
I read this book in two days. It's not the type of book you'll want to put down. I can see this book having the same appeal to the fans of A Girl With All The Gifts, although there are no zombies.
I liked it, but it's not without its faults. It's very much first novel, where the prose feels a bit flat. There's a lot of action, but without much description of the area this all takes place. A desert near an ocean where there are grapefruits growing (on the land, not in the ocean) so perhaps Florida? It's just troublesome to get a grasp of the environment.
Carr also throws A LOT at the reader without giving any specifics. Like, where and what are theses Dome cities? What exactly do the trains do? And how can some people hide their shadows? (Not a spoiler, because they don't address it except in passing.) Why the actions? What does Drummond's purpose actually do to the story?
The book raises more questions than it answers, which can be fine. But here, it makes me wonder what else could have been accomplished if these questions were answered? Or if some of the asides were cut.
But hey, it's a good beach read. With all the sun and shadows and such.
I read this book in two days. It's not the type of book you'll want to put down. I can see this book having the same appeal to the fans of A Girl With All The Gifts, although there are no zombies.
I liked it, but it's not without its faults. It's very much first novel, where the prose feels a bit flat. There's a lot of action, but without much description of the area this all takes place. A desert near an ocean where there are grapefruits growing (on the land, not in the ocean) so perhaps Florida? It's just troublesome to get a grasp of the environment.
Carr also throws A LOT at the reader without giving any specifics. Like, where and what are theses Dome cities? What exactly do the trains do? And how can some people hide their shadows? (Not a spoiler, because they don't address it except in passing.) Why the actions? What does Drummond's purpose actually do to the story?
The book raises more questions than it answers, which can be fine. But here, it makes me wonder what else could have been accomplished if these questions were answered? Or if some of the asides were cut.
But hey, it's a good beach read. With all the sun and shadows and such.