Beacon 23

I don't write a lot of reviews, but I feel the need to write something to justify giving a book 1 star. This book is bad. It is not very well written at all, I got the feeling I was reading something a high school kid wrote. It tries to be funny at times, the quote “I wonder if rocks can fart” is an actual line from the book, seriously. I like fart jokes as much as anyone, but this is just dumb, and there is not really any context other than a rock being involved. Just a bad attempt at a joke. Right from the first page, the line “Darkness you can chew”, I get what he is trying to do, but it just seems like a poor way to convey the oppressive darkness of space. Honestly, I loved the idea of a lighthouse in space, but the way the story was delivered just didn't do it for me. The pacing seems way off, for a book about isolation, there are so many things going on with very little space in between. I understand that this was released as 5 serialized stories, and I will admit, it probably succeeds a little more in that format, but it fails miserably as a collected novel. I almost feel bad giving such a low score, I am usually not very critical, but this book deserves one star, it is just that bad. I did read the whole thing, but if it was any longer I would have bailed out. All that being said, it has seemed to get good reviews, so maybe it's just me, but I didn't enjoy it and would not recommend it to anyone.