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simonlorden 's review for:
Floating Hotel
by Grace Curtis
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I received an ARC through NetGalley, and below is my honest and voluntary review.
I have some mixed feelings about this book.
The Floating Hotel is the story of a luxurious hotel in space that travels between planets in an Empire led by a tyrant Emperor. Naturally, it then also has to be the story of rebels and spies. Everyone working on the Abeona has their own story, and most of them are messy and tragic, because only a certain kind of person would leave behind everything to run off on an interplanetary spaceship.
I want to say that I really liked the concept, in which we get to know the crew one by one. Or at least I liked it at first. In practice, it sometimes went into my pet peeve, which is that whenever something interesting happened, we switched to a completely irrelevant flashback. Of course, then I had trouble caring about the flashback, because I was still thinking about the Plot Thing we just switched away from. So, while I initially liked the idea of introducing crew members one by one, meeting new people started getting old when I was 70-80% in and the main plot was finally happening.
Because yes, the Main Plot really takes some time to be pieced together from all the little details. As I said, this is a quite interesting concept, more of a puzzle than a book. While it didn't fully work for me in practice, I think it would work for someone who likes more slow-paced books maybe. I can say that when the puzzle finally clicks together at the end is definitely satisfying.
I have some mixed feelings about this book.
The Floating Hotel is the story of a luxurious hotel in space that travels between planets in an Empire led by a tyrant Emperor. Naturally, it then also has to be the story of rebels and spies. Everyone working on the Abeona has their own story, and most of them are messy and tragic, because only a certain kind of person would leave behind everything to run off on an interplanetary spaceship.
I want to say that I really liked the concept, in which we get to know the crew one by one. Or at least I liked it at first. In practice, it sometimes went into my pet peeve, which is that whenever something interesting happened, we switched to a completely irrelevant flashback. Of course, then I had trouble caring about the flashback, because I was still thinking about the Plot Thing we just switched away from. So, while I initially liked the idea of introducing crew members one by one, meeting new people started getting old when I was 70-80% in and the main plot was finally happening.
Because yes, the Main Plot really takes some time to be pieced together from all the little details. As I said, this is a quite interesting concept, more of a puzzle than a book. While it didn't fully work for me in practice, I think it would work for someone who likes more slow-paced books maybe. I can say that when the puzzle finally clicks together at the end is definitely satisfying.