Anniversary Day
Jul. 2nd, 2023 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAnniversary Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is the eighth Retrieval Artist book of hers I've read, and the start of a new mini-series within the main set of books.
My previous ratings for these books have been 6x4-star and 1x3-star, so it's safe to say I'm a big fan.
But this one didn't really do much for me.
Considering it's about a multi-layered, decades-in-the-making attack on the Moon, involving all the familiar characters from previous books - it's mostly really boring...
There's one death at the start of the book, which eventually leads people to believe there are likely to be more - and the first half of the book is almost entirely made up of scenes of different people analysing different crime scenes, with very little progress made.
There are far too many viewpoint characters to keep track of (a lot of whom have not been in the series before) and there was too much of a gap between their scenes (for me, at least) to remember who they were when they came back into the story.
A lot of the scenes have only one character, looking at stuff and thinking about stuff, and not interacting directly with anyone else, which means the pace is pretty glacial.
It did pick up a bit in the second half, though it was still very drawn out, and the ultimate conclusion was quite exciting (and certainly impactful). The last 35 pages were dedicated to the three main characters I already knew and liked - Nyquist, DeRicci and Flint - and contained a lead-up to the rest of the series that definitely made me want to carry on reading, so that was a good ending, at least.
But I really struggled with this one - and if I hadn't already been heavily invested in the series as a whole, I would probably have given up partway through.
My previous ratings for these books have been 6x4-star and 1x3-star, so it's safe to say I'm a big fan.
But this one didn't really do much for me.
Considering it's about a multi-layered, decades-in-the-making attack on the Moon, involving all the familiar characters from previous books - it's mostly really boring...
There's one death at the start of the book, which eventually leads people to believe there are likely to be more - and the first half of the book is almost entirely made up of scenes of different people analysing different crime scenes, with very little progress made.
There are far too many viewpoint characters to keep track of (a lot of whom have not been in the series before) and there was too much of a gap between their scenes (for me, at least) to remember who they were when they came back into the story.
A lot of the scenes have only one character, looking at stuff and thinking about stuff, and not interacting directly with anyone else, which means the pace is pretty glacial.
It did pick up a bit in the second half, though it was still very drawn out, and the ultimate conclusion was quite exciting (and certainly impactful). The last 35 pages were dedicated to the three main characters I already knew and liked - Nyquist, DeRicci and Flint - and contained a lead-up to the rest of the series that definitely made me want to carry on reading, so that was a good ending, at least.
But I really struggled with this one - and if I hadn't already been heavily invested in the series as a whole, I would probably have given up partway through.
