A review by mjfmjfmjf
The Unremembered by Peter Orullian

2.0

This was a book I read for the Endeavour awards. There was some interesting and good world-building attempted here. But this book just plain suffered from too much too soon. I never cared about any of the characters, not when they were together, not when they were separated, not when they re-found each other. There was too much stupid-name syndrome and this started from the very first page. And yet there were glimpses of the author's storytelling capabilities - just a couple pages - but these would have made nice short stories. And I guess that's what I would want to fix this overly long book - make it 2500 pages and multiple books rather than almost 700. Slow it down. Learn to actually like the characters and their place. Note - this book is clearly first in a series. Nice cover though.