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A review by brookewallace13
The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue by Trevor Alan Foris
3.0
This is honestly a hard book to review. The author created an intricate world that catches attention. From a physics and theory standpoint I love that the world was basically the theory of multiple universes, but tweaked a little bit. It was also neat seeing how different characters could manipulate reality among other things. The author also created different words to add flavor to the book. It was great that definitions and pronunciations of the new words and name of characters were at the back of book and it was heavily relied upon (and something I think all books should have). I also love the interactive narrator within the story and some of the fun cutesy cartoon-like characters. There is a lot of magic and sci-fi elements to the story that are really cool and a sort of steampunk theme.
One of my main issues with this book is that it was mostly world building. I honestly think that more than half of this book is the author creating world and the other is plot. The world itself is so intricate and complicated that it can be really hard to follow. Not to mention there were parts where a group of characters, who knew how the world worked, would go on this 3 or 4 page monologue about the world purely for the reader. Another problem I had with the book was the dialogue between characters. There would be serious moments and then all of the sudden an unwarranted goofy, quirky moment came along. I felt as though the levity wasn't earned in those situations, it just kind of happened in places that it shouldn't. Speaking of random events, there would just be random events that would suddenly happen without ever being mentioned in the very extensive world building. I was disappointed in the ending as well, it was very abrupt (and a random event occurred) but it was left open for future books.
This book is only the prologue. So that is probably why there is so much world building. I still plan to read the future books in this series despite my complaints.
One of my main issues with this book is that it was mostly world building. I honestly think that more than half of this book is the author creating world and the other is plot. The world itself is so intricate and complicated that it can be really hard to follow. Not to mention there were parts where a group of characters, who knew how the world worked, would go on this 3 or 4 page monologue about the world purely for the reader. Another problem I had with the book was the dialogue between characters. There would be serious moments and then all of the sudden an unwarranted goofy, quirky moment came along. I felt as though the levity wasn't earned in those situations, it just kind of happened in places that it shouldn't. Speaking of random events, there would just be random events that would suddenly happen without ever being mentioned in the very extensive world building. I was disappointed in the ending as well, it was very abrupt (and a random event occurred) but it was left open for future books.
This book is only the prologue. So that is probably why there is so much world building. I still plan to read the future books in this series despite my complaints.