Date Finished: April 30, 2018
Page Count: 403
Genre: Science Fiction
Hey. This
here is a continuation of my disgusted rant about the book from Saturday so
instead of me repeating myself and stuff go read that blog post for me. If you want,
you can even consider it a part one as I can guarantee you I’m going to expand
on my hatred for Sidonia.
Okay, I am disappointed.
I knew Sidonia was coming back but Jesus Christ, why did Kincaid have to bring
her beck the way she did? It was all:
“Sup, Nemesis” and the Nemesis was
all,
“S***! Donia is that you?”
“Yeah, let’s have some tea while we
get reacquainted.”
“Donia!!!” and Nemesis lovingly
jumped into her arms.
What? That’s it? I mean it would
seem unfitting to bring Donia back in a fancy way that had lots of bells a tassels
but just her suddenly appearing like a wrapped up present to Nemesis was stupid
beyond stupid. It was like Kincaid was all,
“Gosh darn it, I don’t know how to progress
the plot along. Hey why not bring Donia back to make Nemesis get more character
development and learn that she cares for Tyrus? I can even kill her off less
than a hundred pages later to make Nemesis go through so deep trauma and stop
trusting Tyrus. Then I can make my masterpiece another one of the hundreds of
trilogies where society has screwed up and people somehow still manage to
romance. Absolute genius me.”
Again, why?!? This was meant to be
a single. Humanity still likes it’s one-shots, and if the characters from a
one-shot come back to another story that is set in the same world but isn’t
super plot wise connected/a sequel that’s okay too! Just why did you bring back
Donia in a sudden way Kincaid? Was it for a plot twist? Did you think it would
make things interesting? Make us care about Nemesis more? Because I sure
started caring about Nemesis less once Donia came back.
Honestly I just haaaaaated Donia so
much, she spoiled the fun of the whole book and almost made me skim the last
few hundred pages. You know you hate someone when they make you want to quit or
cause you to experience eternal suffering and seeing how one of these is true,
I was satisfied seeing Donia get her flat donkey out of the plot. That’s right,
just satisfied. I couldn’t even revel in her demise since I was just so done
with her by the point after screwing up Nemesis and complicating the plot way
more than it had to be.
Aside from Donia sucking and finally,
finally, kicking the bucket we had Tyrusarus
rex who was an awesome character in his own right, despite being Nemesis’ love
intrest. Honestly, I though the guy was insane and I would have loved him for
that, but when he revealed his true colors to Nemesis it just gave so much more
depth to him to love (and he was the most indepth character to me, so lovable
indeed). Shame the guy got upstage by Donia and was stuck in the role of love interest.
The Matriarch was another awesome character if you ask me as I found her
determined to do anything for what she loved a really appealing character
trait. Sure Nemesis was the same thing, but the Matriarch was human and
relatable, so sorry, not sorry Nemesis. The final awesome character was Cygna,
the grandmother of all hell. I like a hate-able villain in my stories (not to
say that’s the only type of villain I like) and Cygna was one to hate. She kept
screwing things up for Tyrus and proving herself a formidable enemy. From her
sci-fi backstory to her merciless nature I couldn’t help but be glad when this
woman got shot into a sun at the end of the book. Only problem: she got
overshadowed by Ragyō. Other who read the book be all, “who?” but it wasn’t
even a character in the book at all *grins madly* see, yesterday I finished watching
Kill la Kill (remember I mentioned
that in my previous post) and I have never been more grateful for my mother (or
father) and the way she treats me. Don’t get me wrong, Cygna is savage, ruling
through her favorite son, but Ragyō, mmh, Ragyō got so much more over her. I
could point out her actions of fusing her daughter with life fibers and then
dropping her down a garbage chute when she “died,” her beating the crap out of
both her daughters multiple times without mercy, or the fact that she took her “favorite
daughter” and sliced her in half without a second though due to her standing
against her plus inappropriate stuff she did with both of them, so I
think you can see how Cygna pales in comparison to the blinding light of
rainbow mom who would do anything to destroy the planet.
Moving on, I felt that the world
building was half-baked here. I don’t care about the romance and all the details pertaining to the Chrysanthemum
and the inflated Grandiloquy’s egos, tell me more about this space place humans
have built since the Earth exploded. I want to know more about the tech and the
social structure and all these genetics advancements and modified humans (I do
wish to grow up to be a geneticist). For the longest time I though Nemesis was
some type of robot, but nope, she a GMO meant to kill all who oppose her
master. I don’t want to read a love story about her! I don’t want to read from
her POV (it shows how she develops, but it’s still dull as heck)! Let’s go on
an adventure where Nemesis’ old owner has been killed and Tyrus takes her in
and the two make an awesome new superior-subordinate friendship in their quest
to liberate humanity from ignorance before space gets corrupted beyond repair!!
Seriously, why wasn’t this the plot? I would have loved to hear the detached
POV of Nemesis as she watched humans and struggled to overcome her grief and
learned about her own humanity as she realized the worth of Tyrus’ companionship.
She could experience the world Kincaid created, taking us on a tour through the
galaxy and becoming aware of all its beauty with her newly opened mind. But you
know, maybe just I would want that. I think we all know this is an incognito
jab at how much I hate romance and I’m probably one in a hundred thousand about
this. The world doesn’t revolve around romance people so stop centering your YA
novels around it! Or I could stop reading YA novels like a good friend keeps
telling me. Only problem is that adult novels have adult romance in them
sometimes and I’d hate to stumble across more of that. *Shudders.*
Last three things noteworthy. 1:
page 177 got out of character when Nemesis randomly spat out, “‘I don’t give a
damn about your uncle or politics.’” Like where did that come from Kincaid? If
you’re going to use language use it consistently because that was one of 3 (I
recall) cuss words that didn’t suit a sci-fi future story where the people
worshiped the divine cosmos (even if Nemesis didn’t). What the heck would she
know about damnation? 2: chapter 47 was an absolute cringe fest as Nemesis was
freaking out since Donia was dead and her inner monologue sounded so wrong. I
get it, she was in pain about watching her beloved mistress die in her arms,
but it still came out all wrong if you ask me and I still didn’t care for
Donia. 3: The Empress is the already
published sequel. Need I elaborate on what was earlier stated about this book
deserving to be a one-shot? My gosh, I bet some more upsetting painfully
obvious plot twist will happen due to foreshadowing like Tyrus dying (by Nemesis’
hand maybe) or being the cause behind Donia’s murder. Whatever, I’m not reading
it, I’m fine with this ending here and see no reason to go for the sequel.
The moral of the story is that I should
have listened to my friend long ago that review this book when I read her
review. It has too much unnecessary romance. It also doesn’t have enough world
building. What is does have is a character I abhor with a passion that I haven’t
felt in the longest time and the dull protagonist that can’t help herself so
she hangs onto her love interest. Kincaid, don’t expect me to read any more of
your books and consider this one a wasted potential in my eyes that deserves to
be dumped into the abyss of pointless YA novels that were made to be forgotten.
You like sci-fi? Read this. You like romance? Sure read this? You like cunning
characters and tons of family betrayal? READ THIS. But please, don’t read this
otherwise unless you’re out of options, it’s not good enough if you ask me.
10/10, I would not read again. It’s nothing personal, just a matter of
preferences in my books.
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