Historical-Fiction

Hits like a hammer, but jumps the shark on the 3rd generation.

Mechanical writing, heavily foreshadowed plot, and multiple povs made this book highly soporific. Only one character had the right motive, making the twist less shocking. After falling asleep for the 8th time while reading, and abut 75% in, just skipped to the wiki summary.

I felt cheated, every time I started to enjoy a story, it would stop and I would be forced to read something else, by the time I got to cavendish part two, I lost motivation to continue. Not that I had time to, anyways, as Chinese studies left no time for English reading.I hoped that if I switched to Chinese I could filter out the annoying linguistic style and tone. But the translation surprisingly kept the tone of the original, only adding copious footnotes to explain obscure culture references that the chinese audience would have little way to decipher. By the time I made it to the end of the recursive equation, I had forgotten all but the sketchiest outlines of the previous mini-stories read 9 months ago in a different language. ...