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The Ferryman
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I really wanted to love this book, the premise sounds so fantastic, it just wasn't executed as well as I'd hoped.
The book starts off slow, introducing you to the world, how it works mechanics wise, and the main character. As we get deeper into the story, we are led to feel for the guy, and his humble life as an upper class person. As the cracks in their well oiled society begin to show the book starts to pick up in pace.
But around the 60% mark, when the big plot twist happens, the author leans on telling to catch the reader up, disguised as catching the main character up and it really pulled me out of the story. I had a hard time getting back into it for the rest of the book, beside the fact that that type of plot twist is rarely done satisfactory. The ending was only so so for me, but mostly because the jig was up, so there was no point in what was happening to the characters for me. The characters that did matter, didn't get the page time they deserved.
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Overall, if you really enjoyed the show LOST or the movie Inception, you'll probably enjoy this book. I'm not saying I disliked it. It was an interesting take on society, and had some thought provoking points about the human race.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing this copy for me to read.
The book starts off slow, introducing you to the world, how it works mechanics wise, and the main character. As we get deeper into the story, we are led to feel for the guy, and his humble life as an upper class person. As the cracks in their well oiled society begin to show the book starts to pick up in pace.
But around the 60% mark, when the big plot twist happens, the author leans on telling to catch the reader up, disguised as catching the main character up and it really pulled me out of the story. I had a hard time getting back into it for the rest of the book, beside the fact that that type of plot twist is rarely done satisfactory. The ending was only so so for me, but mostly because the jig was up, so there was no point in what was happening to the characters for me. The characters that did matter, didn't get the page time they deserved.
If you want the spoiler version, (view spoiler)
Overall, if you really enjoyed the show LOST or the movie Inception, you'll probably enjoy this book. I'm not saying I disliked it. It was an interesting take on society, and had some thought provoking points about the human race.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing this copy for me to read.
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Reading Progress
September 13, 2022
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Started Reading
September 13, 2022
– Shelved
September 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
dystopian
September 15, 2022
– Shelved as:
scifi
September 15, 2022
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Finished Reading
April 8, 2023
– Shelved as:
caffeinated-fantasy
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May 18, 2023 12:32PM
I liked the book more than you, I think, but I totally agree that once the whole "this was all a dream" thing happened, I wanted to get into the meat of what they were going to do now. I pretty much skimmed the last 1/3 because of this.
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Interesting to compare it to LOST. I remember really liking that TV show until it got out of control in bizarre ways and flushed itself down the toilet for me.
Agree that the ending is a cop-out
