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We are two weeks into the month of September now. I think this might be a reasonable amount of time for some readers to have completed this book if they started early this month. At least I finished it last week. I'll leave this thread pinned for the rest of the month and next weekend I'll create the poll for the next book of the month. That poll will end on the last day of the month and the cycle will continue.

Feel free to include as many spoilers as you want in your comments as the post itself is marked as containing spoilers.

I'm hoping someone else could get started or else I will have to. 😅

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[–] brettvitaz@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I enjoyed the concept of the book. I didn’t like being constantly reminded that Ryland Grace was a teacher as if I couldn’t remember that between chapters. There was way too much of this beating me over the head with simple science and reminders of things that happened earlier that it took me out of enjoying the story.

[–] daellat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it was like that all over. The characters are more or less wooden planks and it feels like the reader is being treated as a kid. A bit 2010 and later Discovery Channel. I still personally really enjoyed it but I can see it's shortcomings