A review by lawbooks600
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
3.0
Representation: Side Black and Asian characters
Trigger warnings: Death of a friend, gun violence, explosions
5.5/10, this book is getting boring, the plot drags so much and all the characters felt so flat, might be because there were so many characters there wasn't enough pages to make them develop. It felt like Tina and Marrant were the only main characters in the book, and the rest of the characters were just side characters. Elza was acting very preachily, since she was talking about Black culture erasure, which has no place in this book, and she isn't even on Earth! The romance felt very flat as well, and Tina's thoughts felt a bit giddy and dorky, while Elza was this annoying brat who used her trauma as excuse for her behaviour. There has been a lot of death as well, five side characters in this book were targeted and killed by Marrant, but I couldn't care less about them. At least the action develops after 300 pages, but interestingly, there was action at the start as well. I highly doubt that I would pick this one up again but I might read the next two books in the series which look interesting to me by the way. The cycle time system was confusing, why not just use the normal time system used on Earth?
Trigger warnings: Death of a friend, gun violence, explosions
5.5/10, this book is getting boring, the plot drags so much and all the characters felt so flat, might be because there were so many characters there wasn't enough pages to make them develop. It felt like Tina and Marrant were the only main characters in the book, and the rest of the characters were just side characters. Elza was acting very preachily, since she was talking about Black culture erasure, which has no place in this book, and she isn't even on Earth! The romance felt very flat as well, and Tina's thoughts felt a bit giddy and dorky, while Elza was this annoying brat who used her trauma as excuse for her behaviour. There has been a lot of death as well, five side characters in this book were targeted and killed by Marrant, but I couldn't care less about them. At least the action develops after 300 pages, but interestingly, there was action at the start as well. I highly doubt that I would pick this one up again but I might read the next two books in the series which look interesting to me by the way. The cycle time system was confusing, why not just use the normal time system used on Earth?