Oh the anticipation

[nwhiker]

I'm 94% through an absolutely fucking dreadful book that was actually published by Tor. I finished about half of it on my flight from Reykjavik and am intent on finishing it.

Why? Why finish an awful book?

So I can write a scathing review.

It's so fucking bad, I am eager to write that review, maybe to spare someone else from going through almost 500 pages of drivel without a plot.

Fanfiction has the concept of pwp which stands for -mostly- porn without plot or plot? what plot! This piece of shite is both porn-or-erotica-less and no plot to boot.

I'll link the review when I'm done.

ETA. There are some excellent negative reviews on goodreads that do a better job than I ever could, so I kept it short and ranty.

My review. I quoted it below as well.

OMG. How did this book get published let alone rate over 4 * on goodreads?

I started it on a long plane ride and finished it when I got back just to see if it could be as dreadful the whole way through. It wasn't. It got worse.

Porn-without-plot fanfiction, I get. This had no porn, no erotica AND no plot.

The goodreads summary that compares it to _The Goblin Emporor_? Please. That was a good book. This is nothing like that.

This is 499 pages of poorly written drivel, characters that are paper thin, no plot, no erotica, just a bunch of tropes, ridiculously over-the-top tortured inner dialog, and bits of spaghetti thrown at the wall to see if anything will stick.

The minor characters are caricatures as well. The uses-alternate-pronouns Ace (don't for a minute hope that any exploration of gender was done. There are just extra pronouns.). The simpering gay man with a good heart that just made you cringe. The stalwart captain who-- Oh NM. Not a single secondary character with even a nanometer of depth.

There are some excellent negative reviews on this. Read them and don't waste your time.

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[camelsamba]

a while back Matthew discovered that there were groups of writers who would review one another's books to promote them. Maybe that's what happened to this one? Sorry you had to endure that!