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Afterlife the Resurrection Chronicles
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
Afterlife the Resurrection Chronicles
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
Afterlife the Resurrection Chronicles
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
Afterlife the Resurrection Chronicles
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
By Merrie Destefano
It is really difficult to review this book. I have rarely seen such a sweeping attempt to incorporate so many grand ideas in such a completely haphazard way. The book is science fiction but often read more like urban fantasy â especially at the end when things waxed very metaphysical.
At times it was like the author thought up several really cool ideas (living nine times, a world divided between stringers and one timers, needing a death certificate to have a child, the underground circus, impending societal collapse) but had no idea how to do the requisite world building. The logic flaws in the story were so gaping as to be distracting. That could have been forgiven if the smaller story and character development had been compelling. It wasn't.
Chaz was supposed to be angsty, deep, and philosophicalâ¦I think. He was written in the style of the hard boiled noir detective. I never got to the point where I cared for him. Angelique wasn't particularly compelling either. Worse, their romance â if it could be called that â came out of nowhere and never felt real.
The writing style is often very evocative and there is no doubt the author is an excellent word smith. She paints very vivid setting that sets the mood perfectly. The trouble is that it never comes together from chapter to chapter. It starts with chapter one. A very specific mood and world is painted except that isn't even close to what the rest of the story is about. At first we find out the Chaz is a âbaby sitterâ whose job it is to watch newly revived ânewbiesâ. That really doesn't make in sense mid-way through the book. I never got any sense of motivation for that given who he was. It felt more like an excuse to have him watching Angelique. When we learn who she is and what happened to herâ¦it makes zero sense.
On the world building front, just a few things bothered me :
A world where the super rich could buy stolen children and yet no one could get around the population laws? On the entire planet, everyone was compliant except for the underground circus? The nine timer scenario was predicted well in advance and yetâ¦no solution except for the one time serum that was almost magically cooked up and absolutely couldn't be replicated. Not with all the power and money in the world? And what was up with the cure being contagious then later not? In science fiction, you can one or maybe two unbelievable things but not half a dozen.
Story wise, the weird idyllic immortal life Chaz and Angelique âwonâ with their adventure was just too pat and too sudden for my taste.
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