Makings of a good book ruined by immature story telling.
I got this book in exchange for an honest review and I will absolutely be honest.
Corvin can write. Apart from pet phrases that should have been reduced in editing (“What was more,” was used about a hundred times), his use of language is superb.
Jeff Hays, narrator, could read Wikipedia and keep me entertained. He’s amazing and he saves this books.
SPOILERS BELOW:
The main characters are teleported to a new planet by a god. They don’t seem to care at all they were never going to see earth again. All their loved ones, all friends and family are gone forever and they couldn’t care less. That includes Henry, whose mother has cancer and he is the primary caretaker. It wasn’t until they’d been there for two weeks before we even hear about this.
One character l, after a month on Ludus, wonders if there’s coffee there, complaining that if there isn’t any it’s not a world worth living on. I’m pretty sure if you’d made it a month you’ll be okay.
Both characters know everything about everything. There’s almost no conflict. They just go around killing everything with no trouble.
There are too many things that just make for easy writing and not realistic circumstances.
There are some of the most annoying inner dialogues I’ve ever read—if the narration already said it, the character doesn’t need to think it.
There are too many POVs, some of which are totally unnecessary.
The book is a mess and I’m not sure why it got so many high reviews.