Awesome World Building, But Lacking Character Development
First of all, thank you to Penguin Teen for sending me an ARC of this book!
I'm always seriously lacking in sci-fi reads, so of course when I read the synopsis for Goddess in ht Machine, I knew I wanted to read it!
Andra (Andromeda) wakes from cryo sleep It's apparently been 1000 years, and as far as she can tell, there are none of the other colonists survived but 2 other "goddesses". Zhade, an exiled bastard prince who woke her, kps calling her the "third" and calling her "Goddess". Zhade is using Andra as his ticket back home. And together, they work together to unseat the current king.
Anything that is comped to Aurora Rising automatically makes me curious and skeptical at the same time. It did mean that I had really high expectations going into this book. There's this slang-English that they use throughout the book, and it took me probably about 100 pages to really get into the book because it was so hard to read. I think in general, this book would make a better audiobook, because it was a bit difficult to read.
I honestly wasn't super invested until the last 100-150 pages. I think there was too much going on, and Zhade as a character was kind of all over the place. I'm definitely curious to see what will happen next, but so far I don't like any of the characters~~~ Welp, I said it. I didn't care about any of them. I think there was so much focus on world building and the language and tech, that there wasn't enough time put into the character development. Curious to see where they go, but it is something I think this book was really lacking, and I usually prefer character development over world building if I have to choose between the 2.
I'm always seriously lacking in sci-fi reads, so of course when I read the synopsis for Goddess in ht Machine, I knew I wanted to read it!
Andra (Andromeda) wakes from cryo sleep It's apparently been 1000 years, and as far as she can tell, there are none of the other colonists survived but 2 other "goddesses". Zhade, an exiled bastard prince who woke her, kps calling her the "third" and calling her "Goddess". Zhade is using Andra as his ticket back home. And together, they work together to unseat the current king.
Anything that is comped to Aurora Rising automatically makes me curious and skeptical at the same time. It did mean that I had really high expectations going into this book. There's this slang-English that they use throughout the book, and it took me probably about 100 pages to really get into the book because it was so hard to read. I think in general, this book would make a better audiobook, because it was a bit difficult to read.
I honestly wasn't super invested until the last 100-150 pages. I think there was too much going on, and Zhade as a character was kind of all over the place. I'm definitely curious to see what will happen next, but so far I don't like any of the characters~~~ Welp, I said it. I didn't care about any of them. I think there was so much focus on world building and the language and tech, that there wasn't enough time put into the character development. Curious to see where they go, but it is something I think this book was really lacking, and I usually prefer character development over world building if I have to choose between the 2.