The story writing was prepared for the beginning, an enemy and a main character emerge fast out the gates. But, as soon as the first scene is done… so was the writing.
Protagonist blindly trusts the second person they meet in a different world, after being torture, enslaved, threatened, beat and brutally de-limbed by the only person they’ve met in this new world…….
Writer fails do world building and maintain a plot — there was no plot remaining, and no significant goal-oriented progress beyond the initial scene. Writing seems to shy from describing women in detail, despite flagrant homosexual commentary in every chapter of the first quarter of the book — the fact this book doesn’t have an LGBT genre tag is misleading. Even non-human male creatures were fetishized.
After giving up on the plot the book just ran on and used random scientific points to run out the clock, and fill up pages. The scientific insights were abundant and tedious in the last half of the book. Tedious, not in that it was hard to follow, just grating to have to get through so much fluff.
This is a new narrator for me, but I was delightfully impressed apart from the pronunciation of “WEEEYUM” and “WeeUM.” Still, that’s just being picky! This is a new narrator to look out for, make room Nick Podehl, Stephen Fry, Travis Baldtree, and Luke Daniels!
Sorry, but the narrator actually carried this book, and the writer held the overall score down. Reader recommendations? Don’t buy this series, the narrator is great and if you’re stuck with the book in your library, don’t read past Tesol’s part.