Hey guys!
Joe here with ANOTHER review for you!
Whhhaaa? 2 reviews in the same week… Too much craziness
Whhhaaa? 2 reviews in the same week… Too much craziness
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah!
Today I’m going to be giving an honest review of Mary Fan’s
book ‘Artificial Absolutes: A Jane Colt Novel’
Here’s a slice of the blurb for you :)
Jane Colt is just another recent college grad
working as an Interstellar Confederation office drone—until the day she
witnesses her best friend, Adam, kidnapped by a mysterious criminal. An extensive
cover-up thwarts her efforts to report the crime, shaking her trust in the
authorities. Only her older brother, Devin, believes her account.
The author sent it to me around mid-September and I planned
to read it maybe two or three weeks after… that didn’t go to plan and I started
it late November time; nether-the-less I started it and I planned to finish it.
Ahh! I really-really-really enjoyed reading this book; there
were so many emotions and so many page-turning happenings that made this book
so enjoyable and fresh in the deep, dark refuge of the genre we call Sci-Fi.
The story follows siblings Jane and Devin Colt, Best friend
and religious advocate Adam and computer hacker Riley on a quest across the
galaxy to find the truth about everything, their galaxy, their lives and more
importantly their friends.
The story itself was pretty tight and quickly paced; there
were parts which were super-predictable… *cough*Adam’s role in the book
*cough*, but other than that the book was pretty secluding and very well
presented in terms of plot layout. The ending was brilliant, but yet it was
very predictable; not in the way it was played out though.
Even though it was titled ‘A Jane Colt series’ the overall
book felt more like a series containing all characters and not just focusing on
one character, but I understand why it’s called that J
Mostly all the characters were really well developed and
really well thought out.
Devin could have had a slight more amount of time put
towards developing him, as he seemed like the generic mercenary with a past who
doesn’t talk much but shoots instead.
Jane was really well thought out, but she seemed to be
really immature at times and she wanted to do things that would put the whole
crew into a sort of jeopardy-type event, even though she was supposed to be
quite clever about situations.
Adam was pretty well developed and I did love how he became
the hero in a way. The way he developed throughout the book was possibly one of
my favourite things about this book, how he went from being a peace advocate
for the religious views of ‘The absolute one’ to being a guy who was able to
use guns/violence was pretty cool…
Though, my favourite character would’ve had to be Riley. He
was just so funny and really condescending; which added to the humour.
I couldn’t really tell how old he actually was, parts made
him out to be a 20-something-year old stating about his living situations; but
then other-parts made him seem like he was about 16-17 years old, when they
arrive in Jim-X’s front room and it depicts riley looking child-like on the
floor, I couldn’t make my mind up so I figured I’d meet in the middle.
He did make a lot of the things way more funnier and more
relatable aswell.
The world building in the book was brilliant also; for being
Mary Fan’s first novel the world’s she had created were pretty darn good in
terms of descriptive and imaginative senses.
Mary Fan has created her own presence in the Sci-Fi world
that will not be un-noticed!
All in all I really really enjoyed this book and I’m so glad
the author chose to send a free copy of her first novel ‘Artificial Absolutes’
to us.
Check it out if you fancy an awesome galactic read!
Thank you for checking out this review!
And again thank you to the awesome Mary Fan for sending
myself this book, much appreciated! :D
Have an awesome day guys!
Joe J
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