A review by domiriel
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea by Adam Roberts, Mahendra Singh
4.0
Simple and straightforward yet an interesting read. Overall somewhat predictable but at times thought-provoking, it was, overall, an enjoyable book.
Unlike other reviewers, I did not find it either long nor strange (stranger than Adam Roberts' other books, at any rate). The intractions among characters in the Plongeur are what one would expect in this kind of "close-environment stressful situation" type story, but the things happening outside the submarine were enough to keep me interested. Granted, this kind of appeal wouldn't have sufficed to keep me interested if the novel had twice the length, but for its size it worked ok.
The ending is stranger, but the solipsistic nature of it all was foreshadowed throughout the book so it was by no means a jarring end.
Unlike other reviewers, I did not find it either long nor strange (stranger than Adam Roberts' other books, at any rate). The intractions among characters in the Plongeur are what one would expect in this kind of "close-environment stressful situation" type story, but the things happening outside the submarine were enough to keep me interested. Granted, this kind of appeal wouldn't have sufficed to keep me interested if the novel had twice the length, but for its size it worked ok.
The ending is stranger, but the solipsistic nature of it all was foreshadowed throughout the book so it was by no means a jarring end.