What did you read this year?
Ubernoodle’s
average rating for
2023
3.9
3.9
A book with interesting sci-fi ideas that is dragged down heavily by a slow start and having only a tenth of the numerous characters be at all interesting or likeable. Felt like it desperately wants to be a movie treatment rather than a literary work.
Hell on Mars doesn't put its best foot forward. Much of the writing is amateurish; the characters are cliched and flit back and forth between being incompetent civvies and hardened (yet still incompetent) soldiers; technical aspects and writing (such as descriptions of mechanical systems, scientific concepts, or anatomical features and procedures) are utterly glossed over; and the world building is mostly contained in the sparse and bizarrely und
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