A review by heyfirefly
Annihilation Aria: Book One of the Space Operas by Michael R. Underwood
2.0
tbh i skimmed this book because it was given to me by netgalley to review and i feel bad dnf-ing books for review.
i think there's the bones of a good story here, but i didn't connect with the writing or the characters from the jump. there's a lot of world-building thrown at you from the start and it doesn't let up much later and i was simply overloaded. maybe space operas are not for me? i've always loved sci fi specifically for the world building, so i don't know if it was that i didn't connect with it here or if it was the writing/the way it was presented or what. idk i wanted to love it but i didn't.
there were a few typos in the arc i read but those may have been corrected in the final. i can't in good faith give this more than 2 stars because that's what i thought of it but i feel like this will be a good book for a certain type of person and i really want that type of person to find it!
i think there's the bones of a good story here, but i didn't connect with the writing or the characters from the jump. there's a lot of world-building thrown at you from the start and it doesn't let up much later and i was simply overloaded. maybe space operas are not for me? i've always loved sci fi specifically for the world building, so i don't know if it was that i didn't connect with it here or if it was the writing/the way it was presented or what. idk i wanted to love it but i didn't.
there were a few typos in the arc i read but those may have been corrected in the final. i can't in good faith give this more than 2 stars because that's what i thought of it but i feel like this will be a good book for a certain type of person and i really want that type of person to find it!