Athena's Choice
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Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
The storyline for this book had a lot of promise. I love a good who-dun-it. Sadly, the writing style and side stories muddled the main story. My biggest issue with this story is that there is more telling than showing. The character wakes up and you get a rundown of everything in their room, rather than letting it happen naturally. There is a lot of "her hair was brown, and her eyes were green," rather than "she ran a brush through her long brown hair, and looked into the reflection of her green eyes."
Also, there was a lot of head-hopping, which is where you suddenly know what one character is thinking or feeling., despite not being the main character. Finally, as far as the writing goes, there was a ton of mixing of the timelines. We get memories randomly thrown in at the end of chapters, past ads, current ads, and a lot more. It seems there is something from a different timeline or from the present at the end of every chapter, and often it doesn't seem to fit with the book. This left me trying to keep track of too many loose ends to see how they all tied together in the end.
As for the actual story. I really enjoyed it and the narrator of this audiobook was fantastic. There are a good bit of futuristic elements mixed in with the expected good old cop work that one looks for in a who-dun-it. And as far as I can recall the story wrapped itself up nicely. The mystery was solved, but the storyline felt incomplete and as if it ended abruptly. The author left us with a note saying that this book is set in the future and determining that future is up to us. Which just left a bad taste in my mouth. It felt like a lazy way to wrap up all of the loose ends.
My final note is that there is an unnecessary orgasm scene with a minor, so maybe don't read/listen to this book if that is something that makes you uncomfortable. It was out of place and didn't really fit in anywhere else. I think the relationship between the two could have been established in another way without detailing the orgasm of a minor.
Also, there was a lot of head-hopping, which is where you suddenly know what one character is thinking or feeling., despite not being the main character. Finally, as far as the writing goes, there was a ton of mixing of the timelines. We get memories randomly thrown in at the end of chapters, past ads, current ads, and a lot more. It seems there is something from a different timeline or from the present at the end of every chapter, and often it doesn't seem to fit with the book. This left me trying to keep track of too many loose ends to see how they all tied together in the end.
As for the actual story. I really enjoyed it and the narrator of this audiobook was fantastic. There are a good bit of futuristic elements mixed in with the expected good old cop work that one looks for in a who-dun-it. And as far as I can recall the story wrapped itself up nicely. The mystery was solved, but the storyline felt incomplete and as if it ended abruptly. The author left us with a note saying that this book is set in the future and determining that future is up to us. Which just left a bad taste in my mouth. It felt like a lazy way to wrap up all of the loose ends.
My final note is that there is an unnecessary orgasm scene with a minor, so maybe don't read/listen to this book if that is something that makes you uncomfortable. It was out of place and didn't really fit in anywhere else. I think the relationship between the two could have been established in another way without detailing the orgasm of a minor.
