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I enjoyed the first half of this. It essentially gave me the same vibes as my adored Alien movies.
However I felt the second half was fumbled pretty badly.
Earlier in the book, they gave us multi-POV. They showed us Jenna the medical doctor and the pleasure robot she cared for. They made a big deal over how the robot was a previous combat model and wasn't as delicate as she looked.
But when Jenna was stuck on the ship, with an alien being roaming the corridors, waiting for rescue from Maynard and the others the author just.. skips this. It was nearly an two hour timeskip where we didn't know what Jenna was doing, if she was surviving, what the alien was doing, etc, etc. Which might have made sense if the entire book was entirely from Maynard's POV. But it isn't.
Not only that, but the combat model robot doesn't do anything. You get an scene where it shows it powers down to await further instructions. I know this is a series and it might do something in book 2 but for book 1 the entire thing felt.. useless. Like the first half was written by one person and the second half by someone else.
What was the point of multi-POV if you're not gonna show Jenna surviving when shit hits the fan? and what was the big deal about the robot and talking about what the robot could do if the robot doesn't even come into play?
However I felt the second half was fumbled pretty badly.
Earlier in the book, they gave us multi-POV. They showed us Jenna the medical doctor and the pleasure robot she cared for. They made a big deal over how the robot was a previous combat model and wasn't as delicate as she looked.
But when Jenna was stuck on the ship, with an alien being roaming the corridors, waiting for rescue from Maynard and the others the author just.. skips this. It was nearly an two hour timeskip where we didn't know what Jenna was doing, if she was surviving, what the alien was doing, etc, etc. Which might have made sense if the entire book was entirely from Maynard's POV. But it isn't.
Not only that, but the combat model robot doesn't do anything. You get an scene where it shows it powers down to await further instructions. I know this is a series and it might do something in book 2 but for book 1 the entire thing felt.. useless. Like the first half was written by one person and the second half by someone else.
What was the point of multi-POV if you're not gonna show Jenna surviving when shit hits the fan? and what was the big deal about the robot and talking about what the robot could do if the robot doesn't even come into play?
I thought maybe I'd like this book more on the second try, several years after the first try.
But I found it just as obnoxious as the first time. Only difference is I had managed to somehow forget just how bad this book was.
I'm sorry, the very first time Bill and Sookie had an conversation. He goes "well don't you want to drink that vampire blood that gives you a major sex boner?"
And then, second conversation was "well how do you have sex with people if you can read their thoughts?"
My god I want to hit him over the head with a baseball bat. THIS is what you find charming Sookie? Girl, your inability to read this guys thought is brainwashing you into thinking this is okay. Not to mention this is exactly the kind of terrible things you're complaining about hearing people think.
The only slightly redeeming thing about this book is that it had a somewhat realistic sibling relationship where you had two siblings that didn't quite like each other, despite loving each other because they're family. Tho, even there I got a little tired of hearing something negative about her brother every time he entered the scene.
But I found it just as obnoxious as the first time. Only difference is I had managed to somehow forget just how bad this book was.
I'm sorry, the very first time Bill and Sookie had an conversation. He goes "well don't you want to drink that vampire blood that gives you a major sex boner?"
And then, second conversation was "well how do you have sex with people if you can read their thoughts?"
My god I want to hit him over the head with a baseball bat. THIS is what you find charming Sookie? Girl, your inability to read this guys thought is brainwashing you into thinking this is okay. Not to mention this is exactly the kind of terrible things you're complaining about hearing people think.
The only slightly redeeming thing about this book is that it had a somewhat realistic sibling relationship where you had two siblings that didn't quite like each other, despite loving each other because they're family. Tho, even there I got a little tired of hearing something negative about her brother every time he entered the scene.
