so-soA good premise & excellent twist, but not the execution I was looking for. A good psychological exploration that had a lot of potential but not enough movement in the plot, thus making it feel like the story went on for too long. There is a lot of rambling & frequent flashbacks that made things feel overly disjointed. This makes sense given the confusion the protagonist experiences, but joined with the slow pace it made things a slog.
bailedI almost always finish a book, but this one did nothing for me. I gave it a bit over 100 pages and decided to bail. As the saying goes, too many good books, too little time.
so-soWith some ruthless editing, this could have been a good novella. It only got interesting around pg 160 (why was I stilll reading at that point? That is my curse.) Up to that point, it was like watching someone else play a video game, a boring one. The story of a solitary, amnesiac man in a desolate landscape, City of Orange alludes to Castaway and the Truman Show, but the closer parallel is The Fisher King. If only the book had made me care.
so-so#NetGalley #NewRelease
Normally this is the type of book I would love, but it took too long for the story to really catch my interest. Starting out with an unidentified man who can't remember anything was intriguing, but until he encounters other people he really is just a flat, boring character. His flashes of memories were at times confusing. However, once he meets the young boy I couldn't stop reading and had to know what happened.
#ARC #PublishesToday I‘m sorry to admit, I bailed on this one - a man awakes with amnesia in a post apocalyptic world. Premise had promise and writing was good but this story just didn‘t hold my interest. Every time I put the book down I had no desire to pick it back up.
I tried to speed read towards the ending, but even that didn‘t work.
4 bails so far this month. Two more books to go….. @TheAromaofBooks hope you‘re enjoying your vacation 💕
I started this last week but I wasn‘t feeling it. Now I spent two hours struggling to read more as it #PublishesTuesday but it‘s soooo SLOWWWW / im at 54% although I did hear it picks up towards the end 🤪#NetGalley #ARC
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