Just One More Chapter

After many... many (unsuccessful) attempts to get into this book, it just so happened that I was unable to soldier through AND, unfortunately... this was a DNF for me at 15%. Honestly I am surprised that I made it that far. I reread whole passages over and over again trying to retain what I had just read... to no avail. The prose in this debut novel were dense and... in my humble opinion... bland. It also seemed to go out of its way to be relevant by noticeably focusing on checking hot topic boxes... disabled character? Check! Transgender mercenaries proclaiming that they "are female, for now" (a bit trite?)? Check! Could I have misunderstood and misspoke? Maybe, things were hard to grasp and keep straight. I happen to love a good hardcore scifi yarn but this was not the one for me.

Overall:

With large sections of pure info dumping it was extremely difficult to keep people and even background info straight. I tried, I really really tried. The synopsis sounded incredibly intriguing... so much so that I gave this one the ole college try several times over several months hoping that it was a Me thing but alas... it was not Me to me.

I desperately wanted a Space Opera and instead I got a boring, clunky, wanna be hard-core scifi snoozefest... harsh? Yes! BUT when I find myself slogging through a book and not caring one whit for any of the characters ... THAT is a cardinal sin in my book. So DNF it was. 

~ Sorry

*** I was given a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review ***