polarcubby's reviews
160 reviews

This was fun.

cool. I really enjoyed this one. very fun and the twist in the end was entertaining.

Weirdly unsatisfied. The structure and pacing of this book is unusual, not in a good way. I didn’t like the characters at the start but they either grew on me or changed slightly as the book progressed. Too many plot lines just kind of ended. What was the point? Some of the more shocking events just used as what? Characterization? Insight into Lisbeth? Back and forth with Cecilia? Who cares, I guess. Whatever. I’m a very surface-level reader but even I was able to figure who the guilty party was around chapter 4. An accomplishment for my inattentive self or a detriment to the author? Who cares! Too much of this book to me seemed pointless. Last third of the book was dull. It seemed tacked on. I’m frustrated because parts of this book were really great.

Well this was kind of fun. Reaaaaaally far-fetched but pretty fun. That ending though! Jeez, made me dizzy from all those twists! Who knew you could quadruple, no quintuple twist something?! Still a recommend. It was a good way to pass the time.

weird. did not enjoy

It was pretty fun for the most part. Lots of navy and general military jargon that went way over my head. Got a bit tedious in the middle.

I’m undecided about this book. It frustrated me a lot. I didn’t like the dirty, depressing world. It wasn’t dystopian. It was base and ugly and repulsive. Don’t think it was supposed to be any kind of hopeful future and it’s certainly not the kind of future I’d want to live in, or anyone would. Didn’t like the protagonist too much. He’s very fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Kind of felt like we’d get some bad-assery at the final confrontation but no.
The book oddly ended up being what the reviews averaged out to, painfully mediocre.

2nd TRY - cute, a bit convoluted, very verbose, but I liked the ending.

1st TRY - I wish there was an option to mark a book as dropped/ unfinished. I only managed to get through 4 chapters. I just didn't care to keep going. The story seemed interesting at first but then I got bogged down by the wordiness, my mind just kept switching off and it was clear at the start of chapter 5 I did not care at all.

The ending let me down. I didn’t like it. Chase was too timid and deferential, not like Chase we first met. Alex was the opposite, too reckless and bold, too confrontational. The aliens too aggressive and cliche. A disappointment. Revelations were a let down, not in themselves but the type of informational discovered was kind of meh. I had no strong positive feelings towards Sim so his fate didn’t move me.

Didn’t enjoy the ending. Lost my enthusiasm just over half way through. Took a while to bring myself to finish. Not something I’ll ever reread.