Lauren
note: this is a DNF and therefore I did not feel comfortable a star rating
Hammajang Luck is a sci-fi about a heist against a disgustingly rich man. It is written in first person POV from Edie’s perspective. At the start of the book, Edie is getting out of prison on parole, something they believed they’d never see after 8 years in prison. I gave this book 76 pages before I gave up during chapter 6, so anything mentioned in this review will likely not be spoilers.
This was one of those books that knew from the first paragraph that it wasn’t going to be for me. However, I still wanted to give it a chance. It didn’t do anything wrong per se. It wasn’t offensive or go off the rails or anything, but I knew if I finished the book it would wind up being 2 stars and my review would more than likely be the same then as it will be now.
Part of the reason I didn’t like this book was the writing style. The sentence structure is very short and simple to the point that it felt choppy and lacked a certain kind of flow I like in my books. I was also kind of bored. I know I was still in the set up, but I just didn’t care about anything that was happening. That may be because Edie felt flat? They told us plenty about themselves (calling themselves old at 29 is crazy, btw), but everything they told us or explained never felt vivid or real. I don’t need to relate to a character to love a book, but I just felt nothing. More often than not it felt like the book was saying a lot about nothing? I don’t know.
I did appreciate the different forms of representation that were present early on in the book, and I actually really liked Andie. I think I may have enjoyed the book more if we were in her perspective (trying to keep her falling apart life together while her sibling is both trying to help the family and going back on their word - sounds far more interesting to me).
TLDR:
I really tried to give this a chance. I have the pretty illumicrate edition, so I’m devastated I don’t love. As far as I got in the book, it was totally and utterly fine, but the writing style was a deal breaker for me.
note: this is a DNF and therefore I did not feel comfortable a star rating
Hammajang Luck is a sci-fi about a heist against a disgustingly rich man. It is written in first person POV from Edie’s perspective. At the start of the book, Edie is getting out of prison on parole, something they believed they’d never see after 8 years in prison. I gave this book 76 pages before I gave up during chapter 6, so anything mentioned in this review will likely not be spoilers.
This was one of those books that knew from the first paragraph that it wasn’t going to be for me. However, I still wanted to give it a chance. It didn’t do anything wrong per se. It wasn’t offensive or go off the rails or anything, but I knew if I finished the book it would wind up being 2 stars and my review would more than likely be the same then as it will be now.
Part of the reason I didn’t like this book was the writing style. The sentence structure is very short and simple to the point that it felt choppy and lacked a certain kind of flow I like in my books. I was also kind of bored. I know I was still in the set up, but I just didn’t care about anything that was happening. That may be because Edie felt flat? They told us plenty about themselves (calling themselves old at 29 is crazy, btw), but everything they told us or explained never felt vivid or real. I don’t need to relate to a character to love a book, but I just felt nothing. More often than not it felt like the book was saying a lot about nothing? I don’t know.
I did appreciate the different forms of representation that were present early on in the book, and I actually really liked Andie. I think I may have enjoyed the book more if we were in her perspective (trying to keep her falling apart life together while her sibling is both trying to help the family and going back on their word - sounds far more interesting to me).
TLDR:
I really tried to give this a chance. I have the pretty illumicrate edition, so I’m devastated I don’t love. As far as I got in the book, it was totally and utterly fine, but the writing style was a deal breaker for me.