Books: The Island by Adrian McKinty

I started reading this book and got through about a quarter of it before I had to give up. After reading so much good writing lately, this one hit me like a cow patty to the face.

There was so much wrong here – unnatural dialogue, unbelievable story, tropes and cliches, and a liberal sprinkling of contemporary cultural references to try to get your attention. Is it possible that this was a book written by an AI program? If this is the case AI still has a long way to go.

After reading enough to find that it wasn’t going to improve I had to give up on the premise that life is too short to waste time reading crap.

So definitely can’t recommend this one – I hope that someone else gets some pleasure out of it.


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