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Stone Seeds
by Jo Ely
I received a free digital copy from the author/publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest feedback.
Stone Seeds is based in a grim setting called Bavarnica which is ruled by someone called the General. The ruling people are called the OneFolk, and everyone who isn't part of the OneFolk basically live horrible lives. There are the farmers on the edge of the desert, who live in a perpetual state of hunger and thirst, given seeds by the form of 'government' that don't actually seem to grow anything. Then there's the "Egg Boys" - a form of test tubes humanoids. The novel focuses on Antek, an Egg Boy who seems to be a bit different to the others, Zorry, a young woman who has the job of finding a plant that could hold the key to everything and Zingi, the last living member of the Digger tribe and one of the leaders of the Rebellion.
Okay, so going into this book I was just confused for a huge majority of the start of it. Everything seemed a bit jumbled and disjointed, I was getting information about Bavarnica and its history but in a way that it was hard for me to really understand. I didn't stat settling down into the story (and I use that loosely) until a good 35% in and I wonder how many people would even give the book that much of a chance before DNFing it. I think the start of this book needs to be rewritten, or tidied up or something as there's something about it that just doesn't work.
I thought we were getting places around 50% in but then again it let me down. There was very little plot in this book, nothing actually happened. We knew about the state people were living in and we knew about the group of people in the rebellion - women called mother cupboards. But that was it! There was nothing else done in entire book. I actually wish I had DNF'd this book because it was a complete waste of time. I got nothing out of it.
Stone Seeds is based in a grim setting called Bavarnica which is ruled by someone called the General. The ruling people are called the OneFolk, and everyone who isn't part of the OneFolk basically live horrible lives. There are the farmers on the edge of the desert, who live in a perpetual state of hunger and thirst, given seeds by the form of 'government' that don't actually seem to grow anything. Then there's the "Egg Boys" - a form of test tubes humanoids. The novel focuses on Antek, an Egg Boy who seems to be a bit different to the others, Zorry, a young woman who has the job of finding a plant that could hold the key to everything and Zingi, the last living member of the Digger tribe and one of the leaders of the Rebellion.
Okay, so going into this book I was just confused for a huge majority of the start of it. Everything seemed a bit jumbled and disjointed, I was getting information about Bavarnica and its history but in a way that it was hard for me to really understand. I didn't stat settling down into the story (and I use that loosely) until a good 35% in and I wonder how many people would even give the book that much of a chance before DNFing it. I think the start of this book needs to be rewritten, or tidied up or something as there's something about it that just doesn't work.
I thought we were getting places around 50% in but then again it let me down. There was very little plot in this book, nothing actually happened. We knew about the state people were living in and we knew about the group of people in the rebellion - women called mother cupboards. But that was it! There was nothing else done in entire book. I actually wish I had DNF'd this book because it was a complete waste of time. I got nothing out of it.