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selfiegrandpa 's review for:
The Endless Vessel
by Charles Soule
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
TLDR: I need to stop getting my hopes up before getting 50% through a book. Still fun, just not fun enough.
I think this book has a nice message to share, but it gets lost halfway through, only to rush at the end to make its declarations. I stated that I was really enjoying this book at around 35% and that it felt like an action movie. Well ... then the second part starts and I could not care less, but I pulled through to the third part. Safe to say it was not enough to pull me back into the fun of it all.
This story felt like two different executions for the same idea being pushed together to make one book. The first part is exciting and fast paced; the author creates an interesting world with really compelling mysteries. We learn about the world through the main character going about solving this mystery that lands on her lap while at the same time she traverses through her current world that is falling apart.
The second part then goes backward to explain the background of a big component of the story. I think this part really falls flat and I kept wondering just how much longer it was going to take to get back to the main story. I wish the author had chosen a different way to convey the necessary information, maybe instead of just one big chunk the backstory was interwoven better through the main plotline. It just really felt like we had to get this information somehow, but when you get to such a great point in the main story and cut to some, essentially, information dumping, it really took me out.
The third part, we get back to the main story but obviously shit is finally gonna hit the fan. Because we spent so long learning about the past, I feel that we don't get enough time learning more about the present. It felt like a rush to get to the point that the author was trying to make and then the last 10 or so pages was just a big, nice, convenient ending. So much of the fun was already unbelievable, but the ending was just SO unbelievable I did have to roll my eyes just a little.
All this to say, that I still think I read this as if I was watching an action movie and for that I don't completely dislike it. I am just very "meh" about it considering I thought I would really be giving this a much higher rating at the start.
I think this book has a nice message to share, but it gets lost halfway through, only to rush at the end to make its declarations. I stated that I was really enjoying this book at around 35% and that it felt like an action movie. Well ... then the second part starts and I could not care less, but I pulled through to the third part. Safe to say it was not enough to pull me back into the fun of it all.
This story felt like two different executions for the same idea being pushed together to make one book. The first part is exciting and fast paced; the author creates an interesting world with really compelling mysteries. We learn about the world through the main character going about solving this mystery that lands on her lap while at the same time she traverses through her current world that is falling apart.
The second part then goes backward to explain the background of a big component of the story. I think this part really falls flat and I kept wondering just how much longer it was going to take to get back to the main story. I wish the author had chosen a different way to convey the necessary information, maybe instead of just one big chunk the backstory was interwoven better through the main plotline. It just really felt like we had to get this information somehow, but when you get to such a great point in the main story and cut to some, essentially, information dumping, it really took me out.
The third part, we get back to the main story but obviously shit is finally gonna hit the fan. Because we spent so long learning about the past, I feel that we don't get enough time learning more about the present. It felt like a rush to get to the point that the author was trying to make and then the last 10 or so pages was just a big, nice, convenient ending. So much of the fun was already unbelievable, but the ending was just SO unbelievable I did have to roll my eyes just a little.
All this to say, that I still think I read this as if I was watching an action movie and for that I don't completely dislike it. I am just very "meh" about it considering I thought I would really be giving this a much higher rating at the start.