Thank you to BookishFirst and Hao Jiangfang for the opportunity to review the first 20 pages of this book for a First Impression.
In fairness to the author, I simply think 20 pages is not enough of this book to have generated an emotional drive to continue. The summary of the book premise was intriguing, and I was excited to try the book. Much of the first 20 pages was spent talking about the historical conflict between Earth and its Martian colony, and talking about people celebrating and saying goodbye to one another. No significant action or one character was sufficiently developed to focus my attention and I found myself not interested in continuing beyond the initial 20 pages provided in this first impression. The book was not offensive or so poorly written as to be deemed a waste of my time. Rather, this strikes me as a book that I'd perhaps need 2 or 3 chapters to get fully settled into the story. Not every book strikes a chord with the reader at 20 pages, and this is one of them.
In fairness to the author, I simply think 20 pages is not enough of this book to have generated an emotional drive to continue. The summary of the book premise was intriguing, and I was excited to try the book. Much of the first 20 pages was spent talking about the historical conflict between Earth and its Martian colony, and talking about people celebrating and saying goodbye to one another. No significant action or one character was sufficiently developed to focus my attention and I found myself not interested in continuing beyond the initial 20 pages provided in this first impression. The book was not offensive or so poorly written as to be deemed a waste of my time. Rather, this strikes me as a book that I'd perhaps need 2 or 3 chapters to get fully settled into the story. Not every book strikes a chord with the reader at 20 pages, and this is one of them.