What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The characters are great, and the fact that their backstories unfold over the course of a few chapters just keeps you wanting to finish one more chapter. Not steve berry or james rollins but pretty darn good. A little unbelievable at times.
Cons
The dialogue is wooden. The thematic content is as banal and hokey as the writing. We get rants against ai and regardless of gender or age dialogue is the same. Riddle's books just keep getting worse instead of better.
The nuttiest aspect is that to save mankind they are made to solve a bunch of idiotic clues. There is so much smart, well-written, and even philosophically interesting science fiction out there. Unfortunately, altruism is a low density genetic treat t... Read More
The guide is an android. But to charge $7. No applause. Don't waste your time. It become very boring and i resemted the wasted time.
The characters are all utterly one-dimensional, utterly forgettable cardboard cutouts. The puzzles are every bit as contrived as the ones you find in escape rooms. Made big deal on needing certain thumbprint to access doors, then characters miraculous... Read More
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Quality
This is one of my favorite authors and i will read anything he writes and i am never disappointed
As we follow the characters as they face a world ending disaster the story unfolds with a feeling of reality and familiarity th... Read More
Competitiveness
A world hurting itself from two much technological advances
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book that gets mentioned a lot is the birthright and after having just finished the solar wars trilogy i was so over the selfhelp book angle for me it was regurgitated and took away from the more creative storyline elements
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If you love scifi and dystopian type novels
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A world hurting itself from two much technological advances
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I really had to use my mind for this one which wasnt too bad
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My only issues were with some of the morals in the story that didnt make sense to me the pacing slow and sometimes repetitive and the way the world was written in the story i only have two brain cells left
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Its a fast read or maybe its the plot that keeps you intrigued
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is a romantic interest that ends with a happily ever after but it is not at all central to the story
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They are told they are just one of another group in a series of experiments called the extinction trials designed to try to find a way to save humans
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