warriorbarrd reviewed The Diabolic by S J Kincaid
Review of 'The Diabolic' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
I reeeeeally wanted to like this book. It had such a good premise. But it had a classic case of Boring with a touch of Bad Writing. It also had one of my most hated things: forced hetero romance and unrequited lesbian love (spoiler alert: the BYG trope plays in here).
The writing was unclear a lot of the time, and while sometimes Nemesis' journey to feeling emotions was done well, otherwise it was clunky and just pushing and forcing a boring romance that you could see coming a mile away.
I feel like there needed to be a map of the ship at the front of the book, because everything had names but there was no way to orientate yourself because nothing was ever described in relation to each other. It really stunted the imagination.
I just absolutely couldn't get into this book. It had its moments but honestly? …
I reeeeeally wanted to like this book. It had such a good premise. But it had a classic case of Boring with a touch of Bad Writing. It also had one of my most hated things: forced hetero romance and unrequited lesbian love (spoiler alert: the BYG trope plays in here).
The writing was unclear a lot of the time, and while sometimes Nemesis' journey to feeling emotions was done well, otherwise it was clunky and just pushing and forcing a boring romance that you could see coming a mile away.
I feel like there needed to be a map of the ship at the front of the book, because everything had names but there was no way to orientate yourself because nothing was ever described in relation to each other. It really stunted the imagination.
I just absolutely couldn't get into this book. It had its moments but honestly? Nah.