5. A book where you loved the premise but the execution left you cold
Not just a book but a whole trilogy of books. The Revenger Trilogy by Alistair Reynolds (Revenger, Shadow Captain and Bone Silence). It's like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel in space, pirates, kidnapping, some sort of elegant bank fraud involving the lost souls of alien races. A crew of space grave robbers are forced to turn pirate after being attacked by pirates in a far-future solar system where the entire mass of the orbiting bodies has been converted in to millions upon millions of small discrete habitats
But the thing that drives me mad is the way the characters speak. All the pirates have the same irksome cant. That and the utter lack of technological curiosity.
I'm stalled about 10% of the way through the third book.
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Date: 2021-03-23 09:55 am (UTC)Not just a book but a whole trilogy of books. The Revenger Trilogy by Alistair Reynolds (Revenger, Shadow Captain and Bone Silence). It's like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel in space, pirates, kidnapping, some sort of elegant bank fraud involving the lost souls of alien races. A crew of space grave robbers are forced to turn pirate after being attacked by pirates in a far-future solar system where the entire mass of the orbiting bodies has been converted in to millions upon millions of small discrete habitats
But the thing that drives me mad is the way the characters speak. All the pirates have the same irksome cant. That and the utter lack of technological curiosity.
I'm stalled about 10% of the way through the third book.