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Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don't get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.

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[โ€“] ieGod@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hiding behind the perspective of hard sci-fi doesn't make this a good book.

[โ€“] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

like I said, it's not a novella... I did not pick these books expecting a love story... I was expecting an intereting sci fi saga and got that