Member Reviews
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. It has been published in December 2018.
"Future's Orphans" by A.K. Alliss is a very promising cyberpunk dystopian novel... that really disappointed me.
The plot is confused - a fast-paced jumble of combat scenes and interminable backstories for even the minor characters who are going to be killed off a couple of pages later - and it feels like it's not going anywhere, only rushing pointlessly from one violent murder to the next.
The characters themselves, even the main ones, are stereotyped, completely flat, and not relatable at all. I ended up not caring in the least for the insufferable protagonist, even when she was in mortal danger.
The concept is good, and the themes are really interesting, but it could have been handled in a much better way.
I struggled to finish it and will definitely not be reading more by the same author.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this.
It was an ok story. It took me a while to listen as I had to backtrack to remember where I was. Also it seemed to play out of order. I prefer reading to listening as I recall it better.
I didn’t like the characters and they seemed very flat.