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August 11, 2023
Apparently this author likes suspense and mystery in his Sci-Fi-Post-Dystopian-Hell-like novel series. The author leaves a lot of information out. People live in a kind of maze-like place their whole lives but do not have the places mapped out. Alex, the girl "librarian" and books' guardian, is "abducted and transformed by two strange beings from this strange place. Jared the other main character is first fired then his family persecuted for helping out the people living in tragedy in their "bubble".
I do not like suspense, do not like horror, I find today's world more than terrible and scarier that what I can consider tolerable, so as to enjoy and be entertained by a suspense-horror-story about a post-dystopian future in another world. There is little to no character building, no real world building, even though by what is written by the author, I get a Brave New World-1984-Hunger Games- Post-Dystopian, totalitarian bleak future of a story. Can Science and Sorcery coincide well?? Usually they are considered complete opposites. But with little to no explanations of what is going on around the main characters, and this other world as a whole, I didn't hold my breath and was dissappointed from everything that this author did not include in this Sci-Fi-Suspenseful-Post-Dystopian-Bleak-Outlook of future colonists from a "forgotten Earth".
In a part of this first book, the author writes and repeats and continues to repeat the same things: There was a Quake on one of the communities in this weird other world, and while people are bleeding to death, dying being immolated by fires, the author continues to have Jared and Alex, to read their "emails"/messages??? What is the point of having thousands of emergencies at the same time, and having two main characters that can't do anything but read their other mails/messages??? It's as if the author wants to create "suspense"/fake drama? Why would someone write sob-stories/tragedies ad infinitum and not do anything for any of them?? Does the author enjoy tragedies?? A company in this hell-like-future is enslaving everybody and mining the elemental materials needed in their "bubble" to sustain life. Their objective is to create ships from those elements and to "travel back" to Earth (without having a constellation map to return).
I do not like suspense, do not like horror, I find today's world more than terrible and scarier that what I can consider tolerable, so as to enjoy and be entertained by a suspense-horror-story about a post-dystopian future in another world. There is little to no character building, no real world building, even though by what is written by the author, I get a Brave New World-1984-Hunger Games- Post-Dystopian, totalitarian bleak future of a story. Can Science and Sorcery coincide well?? Usually they are considered complete opposites. But with little to no explanations of what is going on around the main characters, and this other world as a whole, I didn't hold my breath and was dissappointed from everything that this author did not include in this Sci-Fi-Suspenseful-Post-Dystopian-Bleak-Outlook of future colonists from a "forgotten Earth".
In a part of this first book, the author writes and repeats and continues to repeat the same things: There was a Quake on one of the communities in this weird other world, and while people are bleeding to death, dying being immolated by fires, the author continues to have Jared and Alex, to read their "emails"/messages??? What is the point of having thousands of emergencies at the same time, and having two main characters that can't do anything but read their other mails/messages??? It's as if the author wants to create "suspense"/fake drama? Why would someone write sob-stories/tragedies ad infinitum and not do anything for any of them?? Does the author enjoy tragedies?? A company in this hell-like-future is enslaving everybody and mining the elemental materials needed in their "bubble" to sustain life. Their objective is to create ships from those elements and to "travel back" to Earth (without having a constellation map to return).
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