A review by shmadsie
Bone Chase by Weston Ochse
1.0
full disclosure: i received an arc through a goodreads giveaway.
this wasn't exactly godawful but it was beyond poorly executed. the idea had promise and not an ounce of follow-through. the writing was haphazard and shallow, the characters two-dimensional (every. single. one of them. usually there's one or two characters i gravitate towards but there was no meat on literally any of them), and the bone chase a mess of the absolute least interesting parts sloshed together in a watery stew. also this is the second book in a row by a middle-aged white guy that just needed me to know that the love interest was a virgin. (what the fuck is that fantasy..... i guess i didn't realize that was still a thing in the year 20fucking20.) loved it ending on gender stereotypes too (the woman in the kitchen, the man out hunter-gathering), that was just the icing on the cake.
just.... how do you make a book about GIANTS so gd boring???
this wasn't exactly godawful but it was beyond poorly executed. the idea had promise and not an ounce of follow-through. the writing was haphazard and shallow, the characters two-dimensional (every. single. one of them. usually there's one or two characters i gravitate towards but there was no meat on literally any of them), and the bone chase a mess of the absolute least interesting parts sloshed together in a watery stew. also this is the second book in a row by a middle-aged white guy that just needed me to know that the love interest was a virgin. (what the fuck is that fantasy..... i guess i didn't realize that was still a thing in the year 20fucking20.) loved it ending on gender stereotypes too (the woman in the kitchen, the man out hunter-gathering), that was just the icing on the cake.
just.... how do you make a book about GIANTS so gd boring???