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A review by onmalsshelf
The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine for an ARC copy in an exchange for an honest review.
DNF @ 25%
Okay - let me start out saying this is one book that I was so excited for in 2022. I mean come on - science fiction with time travel, an impossible crime to solve, set in a hotel? What is there for me not to like?
Turns out - there was just enough for me to want to put this down. I think the best way to describe my thoughts is that this was trying too hard to be too many things at once.
I basically clocked out on paying attention when there were dinosaurs running around, a random guy acting like he ran the place, and January was hallucinating her dead girlfriend all in the same scene. Just pick one and run with it. I know science fiction is supposed to be one of those things that can get messy, but this gave me whiplash all in about three or so pages.
I also feel like the inclusion of a nonbinary character here felt more like "I need to add a token charter for diversity" and then the author plopped in the character and did not try to cohesively add them in.
Lastly - I fell asleep twice while reading the 25% I did read. So that goes against it too - can't keep me awake enough to at least set my Kindle on the nightstand.
This book will have an audience, it's just not me.
DNF @ 25%
Okay - let me start out saying this is one book that I was so excited for in 2022. I mean come on - science fiction with time travel, an impossible crime to solve, set in a hotel? What is there for me not to like?
Turns out - there was just enough for me to want to put this down. I think the best way to describe my thoughts is that this was trying too hard to be too many things at once.
I basically clocked out on paying attention when there were dinosaurs running around, a random guy acting like he ran the place, and January was hallucinating her dead girlfriend all in the same scene. Just pick one and run with it. I know science fiction is supposed to be one of those things that can get messy, but this gave me whiplash all in about three or so pages.
I also feel like the inclusion of a nonbinary character here felt more like "I need to add a token charter for diversity" and then the author plopped in the character and did not try to cohesively add them in.
Lastly - I fell asleep twice while reading the 25% I did read. So that goes against it too - can't keep me awake enough to at least set my Kindle on the nightstand.
This book will have an audience, it's just not me.