A review by eatingfiction
Nexus by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan
3.0
Nexus started to drag about half way through. It started with a bang, and I was right in the middle of the action; invested in the character's journeys and the developing plot threads. So many questions raised! So many moral dilemmas!
But after the initial kick of action and the plot of Nexus began to form, I quickly got bored.
There was a lot of nothing happening. And there was a lot of familiar ground from the last two books being tread. For example, while I initially loved the direction Anon's character was taken (heartbreaking as it was), it quickly dissolved back into 'will Flicker remember him??' and I was so tired of it.
The new threat, in the form of another Zero -- Piper -- was promising. But all it did was continue to be promising until it went nowhere and the book ended. Okay, that's pretty harsh. Piper had a sinister plan which she was executing, and boy it was a great supervillain plan.
But there was nothing more than an evil plan. Piper was never developed beyond a 'mwahaha' character who was barely involved.
All the action at the climax of the book was very confusing. I had to read sections a couple times to figure out what was going on, and still couldn't quite grasp it. It seems to me like the situation should have been brutal and gory (if what was alluded to actually did happen -- I honestly can't tell). Maybe the authors or the publisher wanted to keep this series from going to bloody. But I think the last book went further. Actually, I would have liked to see Piper's evil plan play out. That would be a good series. Maybe I need to reread Michael Grant's Gone series. Zeroes is basically the same, but wayyy more tame.
Overall rating: 3.5 stars.
But after the initial kick of action and the plot of Nexus began to form, I quickly got bored.
There was a lot of nothing happening. And there was a lot of familiar ground from the last two books being tread. For example, while I initially loved the direction Anon's character was taken (heartbreaking as it was), it quickly dissolved back into 'will Flicker remember him??' and I was so tired of it.
The new threat, in the form of another Zero -- Piper -- was promising. But all it did was continue to be promising until it went nowhere and the book ended. Okay, that's pretty harsh. Piper had a sinister plan which she was executing, and boy it was a great supervillain plan.
But there was nothing more than an evil plan. Piper was never developed beyond a 'mwahaha' character who was barely involved.
All the action at the climax of the book was very confusing. I had to read sections a couple times to figure out what was going on, and still couldn't quite grasp it. It seems to me like the situation should have been brutal and gory (if what was alluded to actually did happen -- I honestly can't tell). Maybe the authors or the publisher wanted to keep this series from going to bloody. But I think the last book went further. Actually, I would have liked to see Piper's evil plan play out. That would be a good series. Maybe I need to reread Michael Grant's Gone series. Zeroes is basically the same, but wayyy more tame.
Overall rating: 3.5 stars.