Okay, so I decided I was going to read the Hugo Award nominees this year. I was already halfway through the list, so why not? But then I started this book.

The DIALOGUE. That's my biggest problem. I cannot force myself to read an entire book with this dialogue. The characters don't speak like real people (or at least anyone I know, I guess), but like characters in Marvel Movie (or, if I'm being really salty, a Disney Channel original show. Like Suite Life in Space). I might have gotten a bit further in despite this, but I found the beginning of the book didn't work for me either. It felt like listening to someone solve one of those escape room style games out loud rather than an actual novel. I'm wary when authors try to pique my interest by withholding lots of information from the get-go. The combination of two things that I can't stand in books made it too difficult to push through in the end. 

I mean, it's a beloved book clearly, and Weir is a very successful author. But I'm decidedly not a fan.