I disliked this book.
There was a lot of repetitive and somewhat bland action. It makes sense in the world it's set in, but I felt like it went beyond establishing and was venturing into numbing. Arguably that's a good thing since it gives more of a sense of the world, but it made me feel like I was sitting in the waiting room at an office.
The characters were bad, they were just written in such a way that I wondered if some of the tertiary characters wouldn't be equally interesting. The point was that one of the main characters was an every-woman, and it's not because of that, but I found it virtually impossible to care what happened to her.
*SPOILER*
I found the first 3 chapters very irritating. There is a lot of meeting someone only to have them killed off. It wouldn't bother me so much, but sometimes it kept feeling like I was reading a cozy murder mystery, just waiting to see who dropped next.
I suppose it did give an idea of the turn-over in the Silo and how things from earlier generations could easily be lost and established that no character was safe, but it was excruciating to read and combined with who ended up being the main character went a long way toward me not *caring* that nobody was safe.
There was a lot of repetitive and somewhat bland action. It makes sense in the world it's set in, but I felt like it went beyond establishing and was venturing into numbing. Arguably that's a good thing since it gives more of a sense of the world, but it made me feel like I was sitting in the waiting room at an office.
The characters were bad, they were just written in such a way that I wondered if some of the tertiary characters wouldn't be equally interesting. The point was that one of the main characters was an every-woman, and it's not because of that, but I found it virtually impossible to care what happened to her.
*SPOILER*
I found the first 3 chapters very irritating. There is a lot of meeting someone only to have them killed off. It wouldn't bother me so much, but sometimes it kept feeling like I was reading a cozy murder mystery, just waiting to see who dropped next.
I suppose it did give an idea of the turn-over in the Silo and how things from earlier generations could easily be lost and established that no character was safe, but it was excruciating to read and combined with who ended up being the main character went a long way toward me not *caring* that nobody was safe.
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