First day f all, performance was great. The narration is what kept me to finish this book, but the story was a huge let down. I am a horror fan and have been since I was 6yrs old. This book had a promising premise the moment I read the description, which I assumed was borrowing from Alien and Ghost Ship, but the execution is an insult to those great stories.
Somewhere I read that the author is usually a YA writer, and I think it shows. The only reason we know this takes place in space with all this tech is because the author told us it is so. Outside of that, the author does very little to describe this “futuristic” environment, so it breaks consistency when you try to picture what’s going on. For example, at some point, they are inside an structure where they use rope to float around. A rope? Couldn’t they think of something more sci-fi than a rope? And I wasn’t sure if zero G was a thing or not until then. It feels as if the author remembered they were writing a sci-fi and interjected something quick. The structure they enter in the book is described a being huge, and yet not much is done to really describe the place, so it’s hard to picture how big it is. It doesn’t help that we only explore a few places and go back to them, the rest of the structure is unknown. Towards the end, there is more inconsistency in the writing during a physical confrontation where one of them throws themselves towards the other and pins the other person down. The characters state that the systems are off, which means they are not in zero-G; however, one of them says they can’t get the other person off because they are too heavy. Throughout the story, you lose a sense of how they are getting through; floating or walking. The author also uses current time sayings (real life not the book) and explaining in the book that that is how they used to say it in the past. At some point the MC criticizes that someone is using a pencil, which is described as old way of writing with a tube and ink inside. How about describing how they do things in their time in the story instead of this lazy workaround.
Those were some of the issues I had with the writing. I am trying my best to avoid spoilers. The main character is one of the most unlikable character I’ve encounter. I kind of get what they were going with, but it just seems like the main character, also team lead, was unfit to be in charge of anything. It doesn’t help that the MC doesn’t really do anything other than glare at others. Even the guy that the author writes as the a**hole of the group had more development and common sense than our MC. The romance was unnecessary and amounted to nothing. There wasn’t much of exposition for the rest because one minute they’re fine, and the next they’re dead. No climax or something interesting.
The “twist” of the story was weak and poorly executed. I was expecting this to get better but they never did. The author borrows ideas from Alien, Aliens, Event Horizon, Ghost Ship, and Dead Space games 1 and 2, but only borrows the generic aspect and fails at capturing what made those titles great. If you have read “The Effort,” then this is the same; a whole lot of nothing. It had potential, but it has way too many problems to be anything other than a wasted effort.
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Okay, there are many good elements included with this story that make it an excellent horror story based in space. What took away from my love for this story overall was a couple things. One, I didn't love the female heroine. I could not connect with her, she seemed like a whiny wimp at times. Two, there was predictability in certain aspects that had me feeling impatient to move on with things. That is never a good feeling. So, yeah, mixed feelings with this story but it was not boring and that is something 🙃.
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