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Hell Divers (Hell Divers, #1)
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Very mixed bag with this one.
Tension/Drama 4-5 stars - on the edge of my seat frequently, the lone bright spot.
Characters 2-3 stars, they were just too cookie cutter and many of their personal strifes just didn't seem to affect them as much as they should.
World building 0 stars - clearly this where I had the most problems. As I age, my suspension of disbelief powers seem to be getting weaker. I just couldn't get past the way Smith used the ever so tired nuclear war apocolypse to create a completely unbelievable world. 500 people on an ark/airship yet the death rate seems like it would kill all of them within 10 years. Farms aboard this airship to feed 500 people in which 2/3 of them are starving and they have cows and goats??? Not bloody likely. Warm blooded monsters that live in -30F temperatures and feed on radiation? You need a magic system to support that.
Plus the ending sucked and it was generally just depressing without redemption.
Not worth your time.
Tension/Drama 4-5 stars - on the edge of my seat frequently, the lone bright spot.
Characters 2-3 stars, they were just too cookie cutter and many of their personal strifes just didn't seem to affect them as much as they should.
World building 0 stars - clearly this where I had the most problems. As I age, my suspension of disbelief powers seem to be getting weaker. I just couldn't get past the way Smith used the ever so tired nuclear war apocolypse to create a completely unbelievable world. 500 people on an ark/airship yet the death rate seems like it would kill all of them within 10 years. Farms aboard this airship to feed 500 people in which 2/3 of them are starving and they have cows and goats??? Not bloody likely. Warm blooded monsters that live in -30F temperatures and feed on radiation? You need a magic system to support that.
Plus the ending sucked and it was generally just depressing without redemption.
Not worth your time.
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Reading Progress
October 6, 2016
– Shelved
March 9, 2018
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Started Reading
March 16, 2018
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Finished Reading
The warm blooded creatures in negative weather isn't crazy. We have animals that do that now.
Feeding on radiation? At the chernobyl site, there are fungui that are surviving by consuming the radiation. A mammal? that mutated to do that isn't entirely crazy.
I agree the ending was depressing and unsatisfying. It was a "cliffhanger " style ending, so... but I agree that it was a little bleak.