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Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
This story had such potential. Set in the future, most animals have gone extinct. Because of human geneteching, there are only a small handful of dogs left in the world, and all of those hate humans (somehow the genetic changes made them lose all of the evolution towards working with people). A company took advantage of that opening and started making realistic(ish) robot dogs as pets.
Sounds interesting so far, huh? It's just too bad the writing couldn't carry the story.
Nothing in the world building was believable, to the point where often times some new detail about the world would just jar me out of the story.
The main character was boring and uninteresting, and every other character was flat and had no personality at all.
Such a shame. The story had sounded so interesting.
Partial book credits:
Point reached in this books: 20%
Previous abandoned book total: 522%
New total: 542% (5 books)
The Deception (Animorphs #46) by "K. A. Applegate" (Elise Donner)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
You know, in this series they knock people out a lot. They hit them over the head with metal things, Marco in gorilla morph punches them on the head, tiger morph hits them with a paw. Throw them head first into stone walls. Lots of people get hit hard on the head, and the kids always say/think/assume they're completely fine. I guess they hadn't known about traumatic brain injury back in the 90s?
Anyway, onto this book.
So, with eight books left in the series, the war has finally started for real. Open warfare. The kids are no longer trying to hide their morphing or their attacks.
The Yeerks too are no longer trying to hide their attacks. Their new plan is to start another World War, so humans kill each other and make it easier for them to take over.
All that being said... this story was pretty hard to believe. The Animorphs (children) steal and fly one of the Air Force's newest, fastest jets. Crashland it into the ocean and walk away completely healthy and without injury. Then they reach an aircraft carrier that the Yeerks are going to use to start World War 3. All too fast, the military people there figure out what's going on, who is on which side, and start fighting side by side with the Animorphs. At one point Ax (an alien, in his alien form) asks one of the soldiers if he can use his DNA, and the guy says "I'd be honored". All this in less than an hour or so since they crashed the plane in the ocean.
Still, with the not quite believable stuff, the story had some interesting elements. Ax POV. Interesting insight into what can and does happen during war. Too bad the interesting parts were so brief and far between.
Zoo Girl by Jennifer Bardsley
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
This story was so pointless. Bad story, badly written, waste of reading time.
The Earth is destroyed. (Or so they think.) Three teenagers are captured by aliens and put into a zoo. The male teenager only gets fed if he has sex with the two girls. One of the girls doesn't want to do it with him. Ending turns out not just that the Earth isn't destroyed, but somehow has spaceships that can go to other planets. (Was this story set in the future? Who knows!) And the aliens were all "roaches" so the humans used what appeared to be bug spray on them, then they rescued the one teenage girl who hadn't wanted to have sex.
The writing quality was so bad in this. Just a complete waste to read. (It doesn't count towards books read for the year, since it was just a short story.)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
This story had such potential. Set in the future, most animals have gone extinct. Because of human geneteching, there are only a small handful of dogs left in the world, and all of those hate humans (somehow the genetic changes made them lose all of the evolution towards working with people). A company took advantage of that opening and started making realistic(ish) robot dogs as pets.
Sounds interesting so far, huh? It's just too bad the writing couldn't carry the story.
Nothing in the world building was believable, to the point where often times some new detail about the world would just jar me out of the story.
The main character was boring and uninteresting, and every other character was flat and had no personality at all.
Such a shame. The story had sounded so interesting.
Partial book credits:
Point reached in this books: 20%
Previous abandoned book total: 522%
New total: 542% (5 books)
The Deception (Animorphs #46) by "K. A. Applegate" (Elise Donner)
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
You know, in this series they knock people out a lot. They hit them over the head with metal things, Marco in gorilla morph punches them on the head, tiger morph hits them with a paw. Throw them head first into stone walls. Lots of people get hit hard on the head, and the kids always say/think/assume they're completely fine. I guess they hadn't known about traumatic brain injury back in the 90s?
Anyway, onto this book.
So, with eight books left in the series, the war has finally started for real. Open warfare. The kids are no longer trying to hide their morphing or their attacks.
The Yeerks too are no longer trying to hide their attacks. Their new plan is to start another World War, so humans kill each other and make it easier for them to take over.
All that being said... this story was pretty hard to believe. The Animorphs (children) steal and fly one of the Air Force's newest, fastest jets. Crashland it into the ocean and walk away completely healthy and without injury. Then they reach an aircraft carrier that the Yeerks are going to use to start World War 3. All too fast, the military people there figure out what's going on, who is on which side, and start fighting side by side with the Animorphs. At one point Ax (an alien, in his alien form) asks one of the soldiers if he can use his DNA, and the guy says "I'd be honored". All this in less than an hour or so since they crashed the plane in the ocean.
Still, with the not quite believable stuff, the story had some interesting elements. Ax POV. Interesting insight into what can and does happen during war. Too bad the interesting parts were so brief and far between.
Zoo Girl by Jennifer Bardsley
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Hated (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
This story was so pointless. Bad story, badly written, waste of reading time.
The Earth is destroyed. (Or so they think.) Three teenagers are captured by aliens and put into a zoo. The male teenager only gets fed if he has sex with the two girls. One of the girls doesn't want to do it with him. Ending turns out not just that the Earth isn't destroyed, but somehow has spaceships that can go to other planets. (Was this story set in the future? Who knows!) And the aliens were all "roaches" so the humans used what appeared to be bug spray on them, then they rescued the one teenage girl who hadn't wanted to have sex.
The writing quality was so bad in this. Just a complete waste to read. (It doesn't count towards books read for the year, since it was just a short story.)
