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is 41% done
I want to like this book. The premise is awesome, and a lesbian MC is that as well. However... I don't know. It's all "tell" and barely any "show". Tamsyn does a better job with the environment and worldbuilding, but the characterization is...bad. MC describes all women as "hot". Well, that doesn't show me *anything*. It feels...puerille, and if the MC were a man, I would have put the book away for a while.
— May 09, 2021 11:05AM
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Geekess
is 42% done
Don't get me wrong, I love the worldbulding. It *is* awesome. But then there's the mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. Of common colloquialisms and the beautiful otherworldly setting. I hate the teenager-speech. It's too bubbly and shallow (in writing, not contents). It's sloppily done. Lazy, bad writing. I don't see any of the promised "beautiful prose". It reads like a beginning author's pulp in a very cool setting.
— May 09, 2021 11:08AM
