Do you think it’s overrated or perfectly rated?
I’ve heard it said once that it’s prose is awful. Is it poorly written? Atleast, does it have a good story?
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- 20 days
Overrated, such wasted potential.
Abused miners on Mars rebelling against their overlords? Could parallel with any US labor movement of 20th century, labor strikes, even revolutions. Instead, all of that is thrown out a quarter of a way through the first book and we get a generic battle royale / hunger games.
Even in the game itself, the MC is saved by deus ex machina twice or thrice, has absurd luck, does very stupid things, and magically resolves conflicts by making long nonsensical speeches.
- 5 days
It left the same impression on me. A friend recommended it to me and he was insisting that I’d love this trilogy. Maybe it was this that set up a high expectation, but I didn’t enjoy it very much. Actually I forced myself to finish the first book, I don’t know if I will finish the trilogy. I felt like the main character was driven by the plot instead of driving the plot forward plus an occasional power fantasy moment. And most of his character development was hidden behind the book equivalent of the “training monrage”. I saw a little change from the beginning of the game/competition (or whatever they called it in the book) forward.
- 5 days
I saw a little change from the beginning of the game/competition (or whatever they called it in the book) forward.
Oh, I clearly remember he gets worse. Starts out with noble intents to be the least like the upper class (gold?) and not harm anyone, by the end of the book, MC is happily slaying security guards and “lesser” personnel.
- 2 days
The most “remorse” I remember him feeling was for killing Cassius’ brother (whatever his name is), but then it felt more like he was just afraid of Cassius than feeling sorry. I wouldn’t really have an issue with him murdering people left and right if it was played as the “you become the monsters you battle” trope, I don’t know, it may be just that in the other books, I haven’t read them. But I doubt it since
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the author wasted it on the other “red” guy.
In the first book to me it came across as a simple power fantasy.