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elementarymydear 's review for:
Frontier
by Grace Curtis
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Firstly, let’s talk about the first half of this book. We follow a nameless stranger and her various escapades on a futuristic, near-deserted Earth. She meets various different people, gets in and out of various scrapes, and the whole time we don’t find out her name, only knowing her by how she is seen by the people she meets.
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I loved the first half of this book. Curtis’ vision of a future Earth was intriguing and novel, from the culture and religion, to the way climate change has decimated the planet. She conjured up such a vivid image, and the Western mood fit perfectly with the tone of the story. The plot was great fun, meandering from one adventure to another, and I was quite happily settled in for the ride.
And then things took a bit of a turn. The first half was weird, but it somehow got even weirder, and to be honest the second half felt like a completely different book. I don’t know if it was clumsily done or if I zoned out for the crucial few paragraphs, but suddenly I was in a completely different story from the one I’d been in before. In the first half I always knew what was going on (just about), but in the second half I was completely lost. It didn’t help that the audiobook narration was very soothing, which made it hard to focus on the story, especially while driving (which is where I and, I suspect, the majority of people, listen to audiobooks).
The narrator did do a great job of bringing the world to life. The accents she did transported you into the middle of an old Western, so it was a very immersive listening experience. That being said, this might be the slowest audiobook narration I’ve come across! I have never before listened to an audiobook on anything faster than 1.0x speed, but with this one I just had to speed it up to 1.5x, and then it sounded like normal speech. Of course, if you’re happy to speed up your narration this isn’t a problem, but I was really surprised at just how slowly it went.
So all in all, this book was a mixed bag. If you consider DNFing, I urge you to continue; you may prefer the second half considerably. But there were plenty of exciting and interesting ideas in here, so I’m excited to see what the author comes out with next.
I received a free copy for review. All opinions are my own.
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I loved the first half of this book. Curtis’ vision of a future Earth was intriguing and novel, from the culture and religion, to the way climate change has decimated the planet. She conjured up such a vivid image, and the Western mood fit perfectly with the tone of the story. The plot was great fun, meandering from one adventure to another, and I was quite happily settled in for the ride.
And then things took a bit of a turn. The first half was weird, but it somehow got even weirder, and to be honest the second half felt like a completely different book. I don’t know if it was clumsily done or if I zoned out for the crucial few paragraphs, but suddenly I was in a completely different story from the one I’d been in before. In the first half I always knew what was going on (just about), but in the second half I was completely lost. It didn’t help that the audiobook narration was very soothing, which made it hard to focus on the story, especially while driving (which is where I and, I suspect, the majority of people, listen to audiobooks).
The narrator did do a great job of bringing the world to life. The accents she did transported you into the middle of an old Western, so it was a very immersive listening experience. That being said, this might be the slowest audiobook narration I’ve come across! I have never before listened to an audiobook on anything faster than 1.0x speed, but with this one I just had to speed it up to 1.5x, and then it sounded like normal speech. Of course, if you’re happy to speed up your narration this isn’t a problem, but I was really surprised at just how slowly it went.
So all in all, this book was a mixed bag. If you consider DNFing, I urge you to continue; you may prefer the second half considerably. But there were plenty of exciting and interesting ideas in here, so I’m excited to see what the author comes out with next.
I received a free copy for review. All opinions are my own.