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A review by luftschlosseule
Entanglement by Andrew J. Thomas
Did not finish book.
dnf at roughly 20%.
There is a military base tarned as a weather monitoring centre on which weird shit starts to happen. Moles suddenly disappear. Something's afoot, and the characters don't know it yet.
I tried. I couldn't get in with this one, and constantly asked myself why bother. The answer is clear: I got an arc and really wanted to read and review this one, so I've read past where I'd have normally quit.
My first problem with this book had to do with the format and I don't know if that is in the final copy: We have some footnotes, but they're counterparts are not on the same page and you have to page through your novel to find the appropiate number. I only do that sometimes when I have a physical copy, but with a digital copy and a programm that only loads pages slowly that's too much as hassle. I simply ignored them.
More importantly, the characters didn't sit right with me. We have more than is reasonable when you don't give them distinguishing features. We're thrown at some descriptions, but apart from that, you only have two kinds of characters: Male and female. Every male character feels like every other male character, and same for the females.
You only get the distinction between male and female as every new woman appearing on the pages is described in hair- and eye colour, maybe size, maybe even down to her "trademark smile". We know mostly if the author thinks they're attractive, that's it. There is a huge difference in how the characters are treated depending on their sex, but apart from that, they all feel the same. Bland. Lacking depth. So it gets very confusing as more and more characters appear.
On top of that, we have Fate, which is anthropomorphised, but called "it". Either make it a force, or make them a person and use appropiate pronouns.
Apart from that, I felt a great need to make the reader laugh. "See, I made a joke! Are you laughing yet?"
All in all, what I read feels to me like a first try. I'd recommend the author to read more, especially out of his comfort zone. Write more. Get experience.
I recieved a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
There is a military base tarned as a weather monitoring centre on which weird shit starts to happen. Moles suddenly disappear. Something's afoot, and the characters don't know it yet.
I tried. I couldn't get in with this one, and constantly asked myself why bother. The answer is clear: I got an arc and really wanted to read and review this one, so I've read past where I'd have normally quit.
My first problem with this book had to do with the format and I don't know if that is in the final copy: We have some footnotes, but they're counterparts are not on the same page and you have to page through your novel to find the appropiate number. I only do that sometimes when I have a physical copy, but with a digital copy and a programm that only loads pages slowly that's too much as hassle. I simply ignored them.
More importantly, the characters didn't sit right with me. We have more than is reasonable when you don't give them distinguishing features. We're thrown at some descriptions, but apart from that, you only have two kinds of characters: Male and female. Every male character feels like every other male character, and same for the females.
You only get the distinction between male and female as every new woman appearing on the pages is described in hair- and eye colour, maybe size, maybe even down to her "trademark smile". We know mostly if the author thinks they're attractive, that's it. There is a huge difference in how the characters are treated depending on their sex, but apart from that, they all feel the same. Bland. Lacking depth. So it gets very confusing as more and more characters appear.
On top of that, we have Fate, which is anthropomorphised, but called "it". Either make it a force, or make them a person and use appropiate pronouns.
Apart from that, I felt a great need to make the reader laugh. "See, I made a joke! Are you laughing yet?"
All in all, what I read feels to me like a first try. I'd recommend the author to read more, especially out of his comfort zone. Write more. Get experience.
I recieved a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.