The Silence of Unworthy Gods

The Silence of Unworthy Gods

2022 • 593 pages

Ratings50

Average rating4

15

DNF at 43%.

This is what happens when an author apparently cares more about forcing his message down your throat than writing an actually good story. But before we get to that, here are my “technical” opinions.

Ellipses. You...don't...have...to...use...them...every...time...your...characters...have...a...thought...or...conversation. Seriously, you don't. It is incredibly annoying when every page is littered with them. I was constantly thinking that all it did was show that the characters (particularly the main one) are mouth-drooling idiots that can't even string one continuous thought together without getting hung up somehow. And this is mainly coming from a character that actually ponders how his increased mental faculties are affecting him; are they making him smarter, faster thinking, etc? No, because apparently they just make him a moron.

The characters used to moderately interest me. In the related series where Keras was the main character, I was pretty invested. Now we're stuck with an unlikable “people are icky” antisocial protagonist. That would be ok, I suppose, if it weren't pretty obvious that the author wants to shove it in our face that he's writing someone with autistm or aspergers, without actually using those words. Same with all the lgbtq leanings, and the blatant “they/them” character that is somehow super interesting and mysterious, despite literally doing nothing except saying dumb shit, along the lines of character says, “Wow, you're really smart,” and THEY reply something like “Am I?” with a smirk. I don't care if those characters are in the books I read, and I've read and finished the previous in this series where it was all there, so whether you believe me or not this isn't me not wanting them in my books. I don't want stupid characters and their stupid actions shoved in my face in such a way that I'm supposed to think it is awesome, when it isn't. Straight, bi, autistic, whatever, I just want a good character. Nobody in this book qualifies as such.

Add onto all of that the fact that I'm literally 43% of the way through and NOTHING has happened. Nothing. Endless descriptions of routing school stuff, which even the character telling us about it seems to find boring. Endless philosophical ramblings that go nowhere. Endless “Eww, this thing I want to do is going to require me to interact with people. I'm not sure if I'm up to that kind of icky today.” Endless musings about how powers work which COULD be interesting if not for the fact that they are most definitely NOT interesting, and so far not a single thing has come of it in this book. Just endless boring boring boring.

And now I just got a lecture (via the other characters crapping on the main character) about privilege. No thanks. So I'm going to exercise my privilege and stop giving the author any of that sweet sweet Kindle Unlimited money and not read another word of anything he/she/they/xhe writes.

April 19, 2023