Uncover No Life But This (UniCorp, #2) Written By Anna Sheehan Format Ebook
کتاب با نام انتخابی مترجم یعنی تصمیم نابخشودنی چاپ شده. نمی فهمم چرا مترجم از نقش مهم خودش تخطی می کنه و در این حد تغییرات می دهعنوان اصلی کتاب مگه چه عیبی داشته بگذریم. داستان این بار از زبان رز نبود بلکه از زبان اوتو یکی دیگه از شخصیت های داستان بود. فضای داستان کاملا متفاوت از داستان پیش بود تلختر و سیاهتر بود. درگیری عاشقانه تقریبا شش هفتم یا بیشتر کتاب رو پر کرده بود اونم از نوع درگیری های عجیب ذهنی اوتو. البته در مجموع ایده قدرت ذهنی خاص اوتو ایده خوبی بود ولی در هر حال داستان به دلم چندان ننشست. شاید چون برعکس کتاب اول که در اون آرامانشهر دغدغه اصلی داستان نبود در این کتاب پادآرمانشهر محوریت فکری نویسنده بود و همین یکم خستهام کرد. البته انصافا تکرار پادآرمانشهرهای قبلی نبود و تا حدی نوآوری داشت. در مجموع اگر بعد از جلد اول انتظار یک داستان با همون سبک و سیاق و فضا رو دارین سخت در اشتباهید! صرفا اشخاص و زمان همون هستند. ترجمه کمی بدتر از جلد قبلی و ویرایش با همون وضع بعضا آزاردهنده بود. WHERE do I start This book is so twisted, The plot tangles and goes in wild directions you can't predict, Ones you couldn't believe could possibly be tied up in a way that is both satisfying and makes sense.
But Anna does it, and it's a pretty little bow that comes out of the vast darkness of space and emotional trauma.
DO NOT DISMISS THIS BOOK! It has so many deep, deep levels,
Yes, it might make you uncomfortable in places, but it makes you THINK, It makes you feel so much, It's just really, really worth it, شصتسالهی رز جلد اول و تصمیم نابخشودنی جلد دوم کتاباییان که اسمشون تصور غلطی رو توی ذهنتون بهوجود میارن و فکر میکنید که قراره با یه عاشقانهی لوس مواجه بشید اما اصلا اینطوری نیست !
و برعکس چیزی که روی جلدش نوشته شده هیچ شباهتی به داستان زیبایخفته نداره
رز بعد از ۶۲ سال از خواب بیدار میشه و خودشو درحالی پیدا میکنه که از کل دنیا عقبه همهی کسایی که میشناختنش مردن و باید مسئولیت کل اموال خانوادهش رو گردن بگیره.
خیلی تنهاست و چون سالها توی یه دستگاه سکون و توی زیرزمین
نگه داشته شده مریضیای جسمی زیادی داره.
رزالیند معروفه و همه میشناسنش ولی همچنان تنهاست :
این کتاب رمانتیک و علمیتخیلیه و برعکس بقیه عاشقانههای نوجوان توش خبری از خونآشامها و گرگینهها نیست
درک حال رز برای ماها سخت نیست چون یهجورایی هممون تنهایی و بیگانه بودن رو حس میکنیم, .
"Standalone sequel"
I don't even care, though, because I wants it, A Long, Long Sleep was amazing, and I wanted more and now there IS more,
This book took me a long time to read because of the fact that I had to be in a certain mood to read it.
. . usually somber.
I don't want to go over the story line but just how it made me feel, There were times where I felt so angry and sad reading this because of how the main character was acting.
There were other times I'd actually want to keep reading but knew that I could only do small doses of this book.
I'm glad I did read it since I kept seeing the cover and knew there was more to the story than the description.
I went in feeling hopeful about this character and walked away feeling sad, . . not all stories are supposed to give you warm fuzzy feelings, If anyone remembers my review of sitelinkA Long Long Sleep, they'd remember how eager I was for Sheehan to make a sequel.
Well. She has.
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This ends up being one of the books with the strangest plot's that I've ever read, and the weirdest thing, is that I only found myself truly enjoying it in the last part of the story in which the definition of "weird" really reaches places it probably never had.
For that part alone, for the way this plot has its conclusion and was able to tie up a lot of loose ends, this would get a solid four rating.
However for a really long, long time this gets focused on an insane/heartbreaking/you've got to be kidding me.
. . twisted relationship.
It has so many twisted scenes which are played by its twisted characters, in a very new adult my heart is breaking in so many different ways, so let me write you a long ode regarding my feelings, style.
Sigh
Definitely not my cup of tea, My patience was running wild like a caged beast in tired circles, because if I had to hear how pretty Rose was one more time.
. I was going to blow a gasket!
Basically I pretty much hated all the emotional stuff involving Otto, Rose, Xavier, Otto Xavier!
You know what made me keep reading when all the hormonal crazy stuff was happening
Quinn.
Go figure!
His short fused temper and cruel honestly were a life saver when I was more than ready to DNF it.
And now, after a frustrating start, an irritating nerve shattering middle, and a blow mind last part, I find myself curious about further developments from this world.
And when say this world, I really mean it literally!
Because when it comes to Rose and boys dramas, I've had more than enough.
Give me something new, Give me Quinn as the leading character, but make sure Rose's gets a backbone once and for all,
Your first series was so good but also so sad, It's completely unfair the fate that was dealt to both the main characters, but I think they did the best they could with what was dealt to them.
And the way certain characters couldn't be together because of fate or time, it made me cry and almost feel nostalgic for something.
The writing was amazing, I found myself rereading passages and pages, It took me a long time to get through this book, I would read a passage and then have to "sit with it" for a little bit.
It was only luck I was scrolling through my Goodreads history and noticed this sequel which had quietly been published when I wasn't looking.
This book was worth every penny! I'm still trying to decide how I feel about the messy, messy, ugly, flawed OttoRoseXavier relationships but the politics, ecological crisis, and mental journeys in this book were everything.
I can appreciate the words of another reviewer that the novel is focused on "very messedup characters living in a very messedup world" because that's what I really enjoyed! It was a thoughtful, realistic dystopia and exactly the type of science fiction that makes me think.
Side note: did anyone else feel a connection to The Expanse Series James S, A. Core universe because of the Geemos from the colony on Ganymede It's almost certainly because of the TV series on Prime and my binge reading last year.
I had major flashbacks to Bobbie Draper's scenes, These two series could almost be in the same universe I could see it, I read the first book and I absolutely loved it, but this one was a major let down!! A long long Sleep left us with a cliff hanger and this is the route Anna Sheehan took it Rather than finishing where she left off, she tried to start up another story line.
This one lacked way too many details and there were several things that made me yawn reading it, A lot of things seemed to drag on and become page filler, As much as I would've loved reading about Otto and the EP kids story, thend book was definitely not the book to do it with after the reveal of her having siblings in the first one.
Quin turns into the guy nobody likes and this story line is pressed with so many annoyances it made me want to skip pages with how annoying this book was.
I mean the lack of descriptions on certain things and the amount of story line annoyances there were, To put it this way, I only havepages left and to cool off, I'm ranting about how bad this second book is on here.
I had to look at the title of the book because I could not remember it, It's barely a step up from twilight, I also didn't like how it seemed Quin wasn't the same character as the first book, Characters didn't seem the same as they were in the first book and the biggest sentence that pissed me off was "Rose became her father.
" The whole BS that children become their parents is annoyingly untrue, It doesn't happen all the time, but of course in this book it would because why not,
I liked Rose and Otto being a platonic relationship and I would've much rather have seen her chase her siblings with Otto AS A FRIEND than try to force the relationship that this book tried to stir up.
I guess the rebellion was what was needed to create action The rebellion seemed forced, I understand there was time made to create the setting on Europa, but this setting seemed forced, I wasn't expecting some magical place that was all glittery, but I wasn't expecting something as mixed as this was.
Plastines being so analytical and they still couldn't control the tunnels Rebels were starving but I guess banded together somehow long enough to create bombs rather than find actual food.
I'm not buying the whole scene where Rose was yelling at everyone to find Otto and he was just there.
Reading the I stuff was extremely annoying because it sounded like it was trying to be one of those "Mind fck" things, but it caused way more an eye roll than that.
Then to ultimately have Otto not even be with Rose made it seem like a waste of time, paper, money, and space.
All that crap just for that A big let down, I wasn't expecting no happy ending with how the last book was, but the ending of this book wasn't a cliff hanger, it wasn't depressing.
It was frustrating.
I admit my initial one star rating was too low, but I believe it deserves no greater than a.
If you're considering this book, it's a quick read but my advice is only read it because you read the first one.
If you want to read for enjoyment, just read the first book again, I wanted to love this, I really did, I really enjoyed the first one and was looking forward to discovering more of Rose's story, Unfortunately, this was more Otto's story than Rose's, Yes, she was key in the plot and yes, there was some progression to her story, but being told from Otto's point of view changed the entire feel of the book and it just didn't grab my attention the way the first one did.
I'm not sure if there will be any other books, but there is definitely room for Rose's story to continue.
If it does, I hope I'll enjoy it more than I enjoyed this one, I LOVED sitelinkA Long, Long Sleep but it's been an incredibly long wait for this sequel, I REALLY hope it's as good as the first one! sitelinkwww, bookenthral. com
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I was so, so eager to read this book, I loved A Long, Long Sleep and couldnt wait to see what was happening with Rose, little did I know this book is actually based in Ottos POV.
I was so confused about this because we get no indication that this is book is in anyone elses perspective but Rose while reading the blurb.
I feel like I was thrown an unwanted curveball,
I am unfortunate to say that I think No Life But This suffers from a bit of the sophomore curse.
This book was far less amazing and captivating as the first UniCorp book, I flew through the firstor so pages but then at least in my eyes this book hits a very confusing slump which last the next hundred pages only to come back on the home stretch with an AMAZING ending.
I think without that ending I would have had to give this book less thanstars,
Because the ending is by far the best part of this book Im going to finish this review off with all the positives about it and start with the negatives:
As explained in A Long, Long Sleep, Otto is a genetically engineered being, he is half human half alien and because of this mixing of species Otto and his siblings have either already died or are going to die, which is what is happening to Otto in No Life But This.
Part of the dying process is that you start to go mad, This is what bothered me, The middlepages which took me likedays to get through is mostly about Otto going and functioning as someone who has completely lost their mind.
Otto can receive and send telepathic messages so his going mad process also involves a lot of different voices and personalities in his head and it was EXTREMELY confusing.
I couldnt keep up with who controlling Otto Otto or someone else in his head and it was no fun to try and work out who was doing what.
Another thing about Otto losing his mind which truly bothered me was that Ottos strict moral code about never influencing someone into doing something they dont want to do went right out the window.
He did some extremely questionable things which had me on the boarder of calling him a horrible, manipulative, controlling, jealous person.
I didnt mean to go on a long ramble about that but those middlepages really ruined the story for me.
Also another thing I didnt like was that Bren is barely in this book, I was excited to read about him again and then hes barely in it! Same with the rest of Roses friends who we read about in A Long, Long Sleep.
Now onto the positives, because who likes to be a downer all day long!!
Rose and Ottos romance!! I barely read books from males POVs and it even rarer that it is a romantic book! Otto has such strong feeling for Rose from the start of the book, you see him struggle with being jealous and having insecurities around her.
When Otto isnt losing his mind his and Roses relationship is very sweet and tentative, when he is losing his mind I am quite uncomfortable with it youll have to read the book to understand.
I loved reading from a males perspective about being in love but viewing Rose from someone else other than herself was a bit strange.
You learn while reading this book that to the people who arentimportant to Rose that she can be quite callous and demeaning to.
It was pretty eye opening,
Just like in A Long, Long, Sleep the world building of Europa the planet this book is mostly set on is fantastic! I could picture the frozen to perfect city and the giant bodies of water.
Sheehan is very talented with writing in a way that builds vivid images in your head,
The ending is pure amazing! The ending saved this book It is so inventive and ingenious, I honestly did not see it coming at all throughout the book so when it did but it made so much weird but wonderful sense.
The ending sets up for another book, and after that ending I am so keen to read it but considering theres ayear gap between the first books publication and the second books, I dont think I should start holding my breath.
I also think its going to be in maybe Bren or Sarahs POV since it looks like the POVs are changing each book.
Overall, when I think back on this book I will probably remember two things above the rest, that amazing ending and that really bad middle.
Unfortunately doesnt matter how great that ending was it cant outweigh the massive chuck that I had to force myself to read.
I am eager to see what happens next in this crazy world, .