The Prey of Gods

Each plot point tries to one up the last in over the top world shattering plot twists. Its like if you took every arc of Dragon Ball Z but told it as a fun on sentence. Or the fever dream of a bad action movie. 

Things are happening so quickly and dramatically that there's no time for any real character development and everyone is making decisions about how much they trust or love each other after just meeting. 

Also theres just so much cringe dialog. 

The overall world building concept is cool but it just wasn't thought out fully enough and tried to do too many things in a single book. 

I... honestly have no idea what my impression of this book even is. On one hand, it was a reasonably quick and mostly enjoyable read for me, mostly because there wasn't a single character who wasn't interesting to follow. On the other hand, there was just too much going on, which paradoxically led to a distinct feeling of "not enough." With the story constantly jumping between viewpoints, and big events, and various aspects of the setting, every individual storyline remained underexplored. Things kind of got tied together, somewhat, toward the end, but it still felt a lot like I was reading a bunch of different books at once. 

The book probably was written for a slightly younger audience I still enjoyed it quite a lot.
Even when I noticed the author trying to cram in as many different sexual orientations as she could:
girl - boy
boy - boy
boy - trans boy
girl - demon/demi god
demi god - demi god
boy - robot
It felt a bit over the top, but oh well.

I (of course) especially liked the self aware robots and how they where interacting with the world.

Oh and it's always fun to read sci-fi that is not US oriented. Because looking at where that country is going, it doesn't seem that it has much future anyway. I rather by in South Africa :)

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Observe: Instance 3492.de2.4.3xx.3 identified, proximity .453 meters away from Clever4–1;
Output: Preparing independent thought subroutines for direct interface;
Query: Will transfer of data packets trigger decommission protocols?
Output: …

I forgot to mark when I started reading this, so the start date may not be accurate but it didn’t take me more than a week or two.

I enjoyed how much was packed into this book. Definitely a lot going on here.

I appreciated that there was not actually child rape, although it was implied and for a few pages I thought that’s where it was going. I mean, what happens to the village is arguably worse, but in the end the book was more about kindness than its many painful moments.

As per usual with me and books containing both magic and science, I wanted to know more about the rules of the universe. The story was fine. Characters were interesting and varied.

If there was a sequel, l’d probably read it. (I actually thought Escaping Exodus was a sequel, but goodreads says it’s not. I have it …

Opens by discussing a medical topic in a way I found uncomfortable.