A review by tortue_abroad
Artemis Awakening by Jane Lindskold
1.0
HEY FRODO, I have another abomination for you to throw into Mount Doom. Honestly, I would have kicked this book shortly into it if I weren't reading it for a book club, but at least the first half of it was merely low key bad and boring. What a difference the half way point of this makes.
Male POV is then taken by Powerful Man to his den of rape and torture so that MPOV can help PM do technology things. During! this! Time! MalePOV is offered sex slaves to sleep with and though he doesn't actually rape them, some seem willing and so it is difficult to resist because like, it's been a while since he got laid. He wonders if they really are sex slaves or the information they heard about this was made up! Excuse me, I need to go shot-put this fucker into the sun! HAHA! Later, he has to mimic sleeping with one of the sex slaves to get information from her and she is SO GRATEFUL he's not raping her that they cuddle affectionately. One moment, I'm going to go collect the carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen this plot has been broken down into and slam dunk it into a black hole!
I didn't even have time to get into the fact that this EASILY could have been a short story instead of a novel from all the dead space taken up by the male and female POV characters constantly thinking if they were going to bone. If only they weren't trapped in a love triangle that can't get resolved until the end of the series, oh no!
Reader, I did not care for this.
Spoiler
I have extensive notes on this garbage, but it isn't worth the effort to type it all out. Essentially, a Powerful Man that our Male POV might need help from is kidnapping women to rape and breed them and create a master race from regressive genes. We then spend half of the book in the most lackadaisical attempt to find these women, and half the time our male POV basically forgets they're even hidden somewhere because he's so entranced by the technology that powerful man can offer him. Wow, this man can't get any worse and still be our male POV we're meant to sympathize with, right? HAHA! HOW QUAINT A HOPE!Male POV is then taken by Powerful Man to his den of rape and torture so that MPOV can help PM do technology things. During! this! Time! MalePOV is offered sex slaves to sleep with and though he doesn't actually rape them, some seem willing and so it is difficult to resist because like, it's been a while since he got laid. He wonders if they really are sex slaves or the information they heard about this was made up! Excuse me, I need to go shot-put this fucker into the sun! HAHA! Later, he has to mimic sleeping with one of the sex slaves to get information from her and she is SO GRATEFUL he's not raping her that they cuddle affectionately. One moment, I'm going to go collect the carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen this plot has been broken down into and slam dunk it into a black hole!
I didn't even have time to get into the fact that this EASILY could have been a short story instead of a novel from all the dead space taken up by the male and female POV characters constantly thinking if they were going to bone. If only they weren't trapped in a love triangle that can't get resolved until the end of the series, oh no!
Reader, I did not care for this.