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Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don't get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.

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[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

Exactly how I felt! The premise and everything was so much fun. Like, the opening "mystery" of why physics seemed broken was such a wildly cool idea and the answer was so neat but opened up more etc.