A review by kerveros
Acorna's People by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Anne McCaffrey
2.0
Well... I'm really not sure where to start here... I'd say this is probably the weakest in the series so far, but you could argue the ending is complete enough to formulate a good stopping point. I'm certainly not tempted to try and find the fourth book somewhere though, let me put it that way!
There are a lot of things I disliked about this book, and I actually can't think of one thing that I legitimately liked. So I'm going to try and blast through what I found to be the negatives and hope a positive comes to mind at some point!!
Acorna's people, or at least a lot of the ones left behind, are utterly vapid and dislikeable. For the first time in the three Acorna books I found the non-Acorna POV's to be better! I'm not a fan of vain, self-righteous people (in RL or in books!) and unfortunately there was far too much of that in Acorna's POVs... some of the new characters were perfectly likeable but they were marred by the others.
A number of the major players in this seem to be secondary/tertiary characters from the first/second book and the way they come together is...almost too perfect. I get that some of the planets in this series are more developed than others, but is the galaxy really such a small place that people would so easily be able to A: run into one another completely by chance B:decide to drop in and visit an old friend at the perfect moment C: be within such close distance of a distress call as to respond in just the right amount of time or D: happen to be 'old friends' with nearly everyone else in the galaxy... the book is basically one huge coincidence!
The villains didn't interest me in any way, the one I gave up caring about when she kicked the cat (why do authors always seem to pick on cats or dogs?), the other I never gave a damn about. Oh - and some of the forced romances/suggested romances - again I just didn't care. To care you need to make me interested in the characters and this never happened.
As for a positive the only one that came to mind as I wrote the above was that Karina wasn't quite as irritating in this book so... there is something positive after all!
Would I read this again, no I highly doubt it. I think I'd still read the first Acorna book again but as for these others... I think this is it for the Acorna series for me.
There are a lot of things I disliked about this book, and I actually can't think of one thing that I legitimately liked. So I'm going to try and blast through what I found to be the negatives and hope a positive comes to mind at some point!!
Acorna's people, or at least a lot of the ones left behind, are utterly vapid and dislikeable. For the first time in the three Acorna books I found the non-Acorna POV's to be better! I'm not a fan of vain, self-righteous people (in RL or in books!) and unfortunately there was far too much of that in Acorna's POVs... some of the new characters were perfectly likeable but they were marred by the others.
A number of the major players in this seem to be secondary/tertiary characters from the first/second book and the way they come together is...almost too perfect. I get that some of the planets in this series are more developed than others, but is the galaxy really such a small place that people would so easily be able to A: run into one another completely by chance B:decide to drop in and visit an old friend at the perfect moment C: be within such close distance of a distress call as to respond in just the right amount of time or D: happen to be 'old friends' with nearly everyone else in the galaxy... the book is basically one huge coincidence!
The villains didn't interest me in any way, the one I gave up caring about when she kicked the cat (why do authors always seem to pick on cats or dogs?), the other I never gave a damn about. Oh - and some of the forced romances/suggested romances - again I just didn't care. To care you need to make me interested in the characters and this never happened.
As for a positive the only one that came to mind as I wrote the above was that Karina wasn't quite as irritating in this book so... there is something positive after all!
Would I read this again, no I highly doubt it. I think I'd still read the first Acorna book again but as for these others... I think this is it for the Acorna series for me.