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A review by brandidean
Followers by Megan Angelo
3.0
This is a low 3, but it could be that I was too distracted to enjoy it. Definitely an interesting plot and parts of it I did get pretty into. About halfway through I recommended it to a couple of people — can’t decide if I should go take the rec back! But it seemed to drag on for a looong time. And usually when a book is switching back and forth between timelines or perspective, you should be left wanting more at the end of each section, right? But I was usually glad to get away from the head of whomever we’d been with. Definitely more of an “oh good, we’re moving on” than a “nooo, don’t leave me hanging!”
I just had an hour left in the audio book last night (and I did think the narrator did a good job), so I decided to push through and finish it. I was nodding off a bit at the end, but my impression was that there really wasn’t any big climax. The threads come together, there’s a big monologue to catch the old timeline up, the characters meet and talk and everything’s fine. It was a lot of work to get to such a flat ending.
Edited to add ... I think the problem is the 2016 timeline has a climax, but the 2053 (or whatever it was) did not. And the 2016 climax was a good bit before the actual end. So it felt off.
I just had an hour left in the audio book last night (and I did think the narrator did a good job), so I decided to push through and finish it. I was nodding off a bit at the end, but my impression was that there really wasn’t any big climax. The threads come together, there’s a big monologue to catch the old timeline up, the characters meet and talk and everything’s fine. It was a lot of work to get to such a flat ending.
Edited to add ... I think the problem is the 2016 timeline has a climax, but the 2053 (or whatever it was) did not. And the 2016 climax was a good bit before the actual end. So it felt off.