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Old 04-15-2018, 12:34 AM   #3
Dazrin
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I am using this for the "Book I wanted to DNF" in the Bingo challenge.

I started this almost a week ago and expected it to take 3-4 days to finish...I finished this late last night. I kept finding excuses to not read it. Instead of reading for the first 1/2 of my commute I would instead read the news on my phone, something that normally takes me 5 minutes I stretched out to 30 minutes. On Wednesday I even found a new book and completed it prior to going back to this one. Always feeling ... i should read MH, but I don't want to...

Any book that starts out with a graphic (enough) depiction of someone getting felt up, even in a dream and especially without knowing it, is not going to be my cup-o-tea. And the first couple chapters especially were just a mess. No idea what was going on and I didn't care at all for ANY of the characters.

If it wasn't for the book club that would have been the end of it. I'm glad I pushed through and finished it, the second half was much better than the first and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

The premise didn't feel particularly new, the "what if" that turns out worse than the alternative (one of Stephen King's semi-recent works comes to mind, and yes I know this was before that), but it was a different take on it than what I have read before and appreciated that.

The alternate "contemporary" world was interesting. I would have liked to get a better idea of why they had stagnated so much in a some areas while progressing so far in others.

Overall, I enjoyed this but won't read it again. And if it wasn't for the book club wouldn't have finished it this time; the second half did not make up for the mess of a first half to me.
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