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A review by tori_renee_reads
Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Dnfing at page 246
The premise of this was intriguing, but it fell flat. Since it is a translation, the writing is a bit stilted which I’ve come to expect as the flow is lost when translated. However, the story itself was so choppy and also cheesy. I liked the connection of Chinese history and artifacts for a National Treasure style hunt to have first contact with aliens, and although the characters were annoying and cheesy, I felt like this had me sustained in the beginning.
About halfway through the book, they meet the aliens and it just goes even more downhill from here. The plot choppiness made me just not care about literally anything happening and it became this long, monotonous philosophical rant. Skimming the rest showed several more jumps in story goals.
Other random things that annoyed me: the over describing of fight scenes like I was supposed think these two randoms were James Bond, the fake love triangle, and the fact that the guys should just get together but obviously won’t.
I’m counting this towards my reading goal because I invested so much time, but I’m not torturing myself through 100 more pages of misery and another week of reading and getting nowhere because there’s no brevity to be found here.
The premise of this was intriguing, but it fell flat. Since it is a translation, the writing is a bit stilted which I’ve come to expect as the flow is lost when translated. However, the story itself was so choppy and also cheesy. I liked the connection of Chinese history and artifacts for a National Treasure style hunt to have first contact with aliens, and although the characters were annoying and cheesy, I felt like this had me sustained in the beginning.
About halfway through the book, they meet the aliens and it just goes even more downhill from here. The plot choppiness made me just not care about literally anything happening and it became this long, monotonous philosophical rant. Skimming the rest showed several more jumps in story goals.
Other random things that annoyed me: the over describing of fight scenes like I was supposed think these two randoms were James Bond, the fake love triangle, and the fact that the guys should just get together but obviously won’t.
I’m counting this towards my reading goal because I invested so much time, but I’m not torturing myself through 100 more pages of misery and another week of reading and getting nowhere because there’s no brevity to be found here.