2 July 2016

Review: God's War

God's War God's War by Kameron Hurley
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Well. I've finally managed to read the whole thing, and I still don't know where exactly I stand with it.

Part of me found the story interesting enough to want to know how it all would end, and the characters and world-building were for the most part interesting enough as well. The other part of me was completely turned off by the prose. Or the pacing. I don't know which exactly it was, perhaps a mix of both, but it made reading the book a slow, agonizing chore no matter how much I actually wanted to do it.

Basically, the story is about a fucked-up bounty hunter in an even more fucked-up world who goes over with the rag-tag bunch of misfits that is her team in order to accomplish their most dangerous mission to date. But for a war-torn world, it felt like there really was not much actual action at all. Mind you, I don't want the equivalent of a shonen anime in novel form, but it felt like most of the book consisted of people moving from one poorly described place to the next, where barely anything happened no matter how much they had been bracing and waiting for it before they had to move again.

Still, it did something well, because it made me want to continue reading despite that. I just don't know whether I'd honestly recommend it to anyone else.

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