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2,0 sur 5 étoilesWhy the hype ?!? [ /!\ Unpopular opinion /!\ ]
Commenté en France le 28 août 2018
Unpopular opinion : this plot could (and should) have been done in 80 to a hundred pages. Most of its 350+ pages are unfortunately not used for real character development that could have made the situation more engaging but are merely filler. Most secondary characters-meaning, everyone expect Eli and Victor-are only defined by their physical appearances and ages, real personality showing nowhere in their dialogues not actions.
The point of the story-two competing villains getting superpowers then trying to kill each other-IS fun but the relationship between those two, which the whole story is about, is shallow at best.
They're presented as friends but not best friends and even in their young years Victor repeatedly mentions that something is "off". In the "now"-non-flash-back part of the story they barely interact and when they do, nothing in their interactions really justifies their over-the-top actions towards another. Victor, depicted as very intelligent and coldly calculating, just doesn't seem like the type of guy to make his own life thus difficult just to carry out revenge. Eli didn't show any real sign of being a zealot before he changed. Sydney, who seems like a sensible character, doesn't once wonder if it really is a good idea to stay with these two grown men/convicts.
It just doesn't add up.
However, the characters and their relations to one other are promising, just like the plot. I hence do not rule out reading the next one, but it better be more engaging than this one.
"Promising" is good for a first chapter or a first third of a book, not for a whole 350 pages story.
