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A review by rowanslibrary_
Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
3.0
I would like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read and honestly review an advanced reader’s copy of this book.
My hopes for this were maybe a little too high for it to live up to. The first 60% really dragged, and I struggled to really get invested.
Hammajang Luck is a heist story, and it does mostly focus on the heist set-up. I just wish it would invest some more time in its world building. It’s set on a space station? But 80% of the time it’s very easy to forget that while reading. You could place this story on earth, and very little would actually change.
The characters I ended up liking, but it shouldn’t take me to the halfway mark to do so. They’re all a bit trope-heavy, and I wish there was some more time spent on developing them, but none of them were awful. (Other than the stereotypical villain.)
I’ll be in the minority here, but the Hawaiian Pidgin was very hard for me to read, and it took me out of the story every single time. I fully understand and respect why it was used here, but personally it was a detriment to the reading experience.
Overall, a good heist story, a middle-of-the-road sci-fi story.
My hopes for this were maybe a little too high for it to live up to. The first 60% really dragged, and I struggled to really get invested.
Hammajang Luck is a heist story, and it does mostly focus on the heist set-up. I just wish it would invest some more time in its world building. It’s set on a space station? But 80% of the time it’s very easy to forget that while reading. You could place this story on earth, and very little would actually change.
The characters I ended up liking, but it shouldn’t take me to the halfway mark to do so. They’re all a bit trope-heavy, and I wish there was some more time spent on developing them, but none of them were awful. (Other than the stereotypical villain.)
I’ll be in the minority here, but the Hawaiian Pidgin was very hard for me to read, and it took me out of the story every single time. I fully understand and respect why it was used here, but personally it was a detriment to the reading experience.
Overall, a good heist story, a middle-of-the-road sci-fi story.