Goddess in the Machine

"Dnf at pg. 35<br/><br/>This is going to be a rant about the language. Sooooo if you don't want to hear it then scram.<br/><br/>Goddessish inish theish Machineish<br/><br/>The linguistic side of the story made little to no sense and became tiresome in a very short time. That being said the Author teaches collage English. Now I am unsure if I know what I'm talking about but here we go. The High Godess language was mostly English with slang thrown in and -ish on the occasional word. Scragglish, Intolerish, Apparentish, Finalish, Especialish, Uncsuccessfulish, Basicalish, Awfulish. That was all within two pages.<br/><br/>I feel like I need to apologize but to me the language was very unimaginative. For instance the people already living there had their own language and it would have made more sense if they integrated their words to fill the holes of what they couldn't remember or understand in High Godess speech. Now question. If you learned French and you spoke that to a person from France. Stay with me here. Then you think inside your head, 'That's a nice car' or 'I really wish I had a coffee right now'. What language are your thoughts in? In your native tongue. Zhade inner thoughts were still english gibberish.<br/><br/>Of course I do understand in 1,000 years from now we will not speak the same. But if you have people coming out of cryo teaching you English how are you still getting it wrong? I honestly went in search for spoilers which I will not share. Even so when I learned of them it made the language barrier and the story even more unrealistic.<br/><br/>Writing this review I became scared my phone would remember these words and kill more brain cells. If I wasn't so mad I would actually buy this on kindle so I could search for -ish and count how many it pulled up. Also one thing not about the language, yes your welcome, there was no map. And I'm out."

"I’m very conflicted with this book. First I think my rating is more 3.5 stars. The cover art for this book is beautiful and thats really why I picked it up. It’s not usually my genre but the description sounded pretty damn cool to me. But I must say it took me a really long time to get into this book. I couldn’t seem to get invested. I had to drag myself through most of the first half and it isn’t until page 250 or so when I started to be like “This is actually getting really interesting”. <br/><br/>The things I didn’t like:<br/>-The lead male character or “love interest”. I hated him. I didn’t find him likable at all. If anything I think I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if he had never been in it. I wanted to like him but he was just annoying to me.<br/>-I didn’t really care for most of the other characters either. While I was much more empathetic to their life’s and suffering, I don’t feel like they were necessarily essential for the story. I was not emotionally devastated when they got hurt or died.<br/>-It got tiring for characters to keep constantly flipping between being trustworthy or not. It just started too feel overused and tiring after a while. <br/>-I wasn’t really excited for the last plot twist in the last chapter. That’s all I’ll say. I wanna keep this spoiler free. <br/>-I’m not in love with the way all the locals speak. Maybe it’s because English isn’t my first language but it just made me confused and stressed. I enjoyed some of the made up words, but for some sections I had to stop myself from just skipping the dialogue. <br/><br/>What I did like:<br/>-The heroin grew on me. I liked seeing her growth throughout the story and I think she remained consistent and real. <br/>-The entire world building and plot was super interesting and it’s what kept me reading.<br/>-A lot of the plot twist are delivered well but some are clearly much cooler than others.<br/>"

"Maybe it’s biased of me to say since I’m reading such a horrible book right now that this way WAYYY more enjoyable to me than I’d initially thought. If it were more specific of a rating, I’d give it a 3.7. The elements were there, but not enough to have you fully immersed in the entirety of the book. "

"July 2020"

"Has all the elements of a fun ya science fiction. Robots, space travel, cryogenic suspension..."