This book was terrible. How it was a Hugo nominee, I will never understand!
Elementary writing with numerous errors and inconsistencies, peppered with pop slang and shock lines to seem thrilling, cool, or hip but failing completely; the attempts are vain and unnecessary. The first three quarters of the book are a slog, but have a slight air of familiarity only because you've probably read something similar before. The worst part is the ending-- that you're strung along to get to only to address an interaction at the start of the tale THAT GETS THE WORST PAYOFF EVER AFTER 300 PAGES-- with no great denouement other than the two main characters were destined for each other (duh) in order to change the world in ways you'll never see. So disappointing.
In short, do not read All the Birds in the Sky. The book does not do its award nomination justice.
Elementary writing with numerous errors and inconsistencies, peppered with pop slang and shock lines to seem thrilling, cool, or hip but failing completely; the attempts are vain and unnecessary. The first three quarters of the book are a slog, but have a slight air of familiarity only because you've probably read something similar before. The worst part is the ending-- that you're strung along to get to only to address an interaction at the start of the tale THAT GETS THE WORST PAYOFF EVER AFTER 300 PAGES-- with no great denouement other than the two main characters were destined for each other (duh) in order to change the world in ways you'll never see. So disappointing.
In short, do not read All the Birds in the Sky. The book does not do its award nomination justice.
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