A review by ixnsindhu
A Hard and Heavy Thing by Matthew J. Hefti

1.0

I really wanted to like this book but unfortunately did not. The somewhat strange narrative device of having the narrator tell the story, which is supposed to be a letter, in the 3rd person and then interject comments in the first person was confusing until I got used to it. The biggest problem I had was that the characters are not well-drawn. I didn't know them any better at the end of the book than I did at the beginning and I had no reason to care about them based on the little information that was provided. The plot was so transparent that I knew exactly what was going to happen right from the start, and unfortunately for my interest level, that is exactly what happened.