books: Catalyst and Catacombs
Jan. 17th, 2011 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI read two books recently, Catalyst and Catacombs by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
It's really hard to like these books but there isn't much that I can specifically point to that bothered me. Maybe they just aren't my thing.
I was really appalled by the fact that no one ever faces any consequences for anything. Guy who commits grand theft, gets rewarded. Pirate lady, gets rewarded. Guy who induces a government crackdown on all livestock and causes the majority of animals throughout the space-faring region to be destroyed.... just walks away. And because of this, everyone we meet in the story who is supposedly a "good guy" is swindled by this con-cat.
It's really a strange pair of books because everything in the plot happens because no one stands up for anything until after it's too late. It made all the characters (and the book head hops continually) seem unfortunate and stupid and like they deserved to suffer the whims of the sadistic authorial plot.
So, cast of characters whom I disliked universally. Plot that was stupid and mostly involved the cast whinging about how unfaaaaaaaiiiir things were, when they could have done something to stop it if they weren't busy whinging instead.
Not a lot to like here.
It's really hard to like these books but there isn't much that I can specifically point to that bothered me. Maybe they just aren't my thing.
I was really appalled by the fact that no one ever faces any consequences for anything. Guy who commits grand theft, gets rewarded. Pirate lady, gets rewarded. Guy who induces a government crackdown on all livestock and causes the majority of animals throughout the space-faring region to be destroyed.... just walks away. And because of this, everyone we meet in the story who is supposedly a "good guy" is swindled by this con-cat.
It's really a strange pair of books because everything in the plot happens because no one stands up for anything until after it's too late. It made all the characters (and the book head hops continually) seem unfortunate and stupid and like they deserved to suffer the whims of the sadistic authorial plot.
So, cast of characters whom I disliked universally. Plot that was stupid and mostly involved the cast whinging about how unfaaaaaaaiiiir things were, when they could have done something to stop it if they weren't busy whinging instead.
Not a lot to like here.
