A review by abigcoffeedragon
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky

1.0

I tried to like this book - i forced myself to read page upon page - Let us skip the fact that in the eBook version there is no separation between point of view changes, which is annoying since there are about three a chapter - I read and re-read sections - there is just no excitement beyond the first few chapters - the hook brought me in and then there was 100 pages of people walking around trying to find someone with a ton of exposition - where did the pacing go - i know that books sometimes slow down to let you catch your breath, but catch it for too long and you yawn and go to sleep - which i did frequently because this book could not keep e interested - i love the concept, but almost 500 pages to tell a 300 page story is wa-a-a-ay to much exposition and not enough happening - but that is just my opinion.