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★☆☆☆☆ - Disastrous
Numbers! (gotta love them)
♣ 370 pages♤ 5 parts : 2 long ones (>2/3 of the book), and 3 short ones. Oddly enough, in the last one we follow another character than the one followed in the first 4. Yes, I agree, WTF happened with the cutting up?
♥ Also, chapters lenght range between 3 pages (overly short) and 10 pages (which remains short)
♢ About 90K words in total
My most definitive opinion
90K seems short for a SF novel, but we've seen shorter and very good, from M. Dick for example. However this one has everything wrong, except for the intriguing concept. It makes for a mystery aura all throughout the book, but that is never dissipated. Except maybe --maybe!-- if you love maths. I personally couldn't visualize what the obscure explanations described. Even when the author is not using maths formulas to describe the world, it is awkward and impenetrable.
And it's the same for the rest: inelegant. Like a polished first draft. Readable, but a draft. Please, don't read it EXCEPT if you're a mathematician interested in weird universe topology. In that case, it might actually prove itself quite likable.
What did we learn?!
This novel opened my eyes on the major importance of good screenplay, hence planed coincidences. Without it, any story, even with a great concept, looses depth and ends up with flat characters, boring action, and a frustrated reader.
Today's conclusion: Shit needs to happen. Fast! Why wait? Your reader doesn't want to wait. The best TV show are those in which Murphy's law is best represented --id est when shit happens all the time... Like in M. Selfridge! Gotta love that show.
That's it guys! I hope to see you next time for a review of Jaworski's Winning The War, which is awesome... for now! (hopefully soon enough, as it's over 900 pages)
Cheers!
That's it guys! I hope to see you next time for a review of Jaworski's Winning The War, which is awesome... for now! (hopefully soon enough, as it's over 900 pages)
Cheers!