thistlechaser | Two DNFs: Out of Mind, Our War (Reply)

36) Out of Mind (Progenitor Book 2) by Matthew S. Cox. When I reviewed book 1, I wrote:

The last of the story ended up wrapping up the first two parts so well, that for the first time ever I kind of almost didn't want to read the next book in a series I loved. The first book was just such a perfectly complete story, I had no idea what book two could do to improve it.

Unfortunately I had been right. The story was done, there was nothing left to write about. There was zero plot in the first third of the book, just the main character remembering/talking about what happened in book 1 and going to school.

By the 50% point, a small bit of plot had happened, but the main character had to be so stupid to even get there to that point. In book 1, she and a few other young kids had been seemingly alone on an alien planet and had to survive on their own, with her protecting the younger kids. So in this book, when an adult asked her to go back out into the wilds, she was all SURE THING! and off they went... with no supplies. No food. No radio they could carry with them. No weapons at all. After her previous experience just weeks before, nearly dying because they had no weapons or supplies... I cannot believe she would just wander off without any.

Sadly I stopped reading about the 62% book. I had loved the first book so much, but this book was just pointless. Nothing happened. There was no reason for this book. (Apparently, per other reviews, she ends up back in the wilds fighting for her life again and hunted down by an assassin in the last 40%, but too little, too late.)

37) Our War by Craig DiLouie. From the book's summary "After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war." Though this book was published two years before January 6th, it wasn't anything at all that I wanted to read. Not the book's fault, not an issue with the story or the writing, just not a subject I want to read about during my relaxing reading time.