Julio Garcia Garcia itibaren Dąbrówka, Ba Lan
Ok...So here come my review: The cover is beautiful. The first couple of pages really made me curious about knowing about this type of world. Everything is computers and automated and people have fake trees and grass. The book has TONS of errors, and maybe I just had a bad copy but it was all over the place w/ extra spaces and what not. With the story, the problem is I never full connected w/ the main character and I thought her love interest was dreamy, because every time she saw him it was the most amazing connection EVERRRR. I felt like the author was trying a bit too hard to make me like her love interest and it didn't happen gradually... it was like instant love, which works in some cases, but in this instance it didn't seem to work. But then, when she got to know more about him, he was really preachy and I was confused because all she knows is that he is so dreamy, and he makes her feel alive, but then he's a jerk too. So, for a good majority of the first part of the book, I'm confused as to if I really care if they get together or not. The plot was a bit slow and I kept waiting for something exciting to happen... and it did, but I think it took way too long to finally get there...I'm talking like 20 chapters in. The last chapters were page turners, so I give the book that-- and I do get their love now, but do I really care what happens next? Meh... maybe?
I would have loved this had there just been a bit more to it. It seemed more like a snapshot than like I was pulled into the world of the story. I liked all the details that were there, there was just too much missing, like it was pared down to the bare minimum to make a good story. I felt like there should have been some flashbacks or some other device to show us what Kaye's life was like up to the point where Tithe begins. The characterisation was good, the story worked, but I wanted to become absorbed, and sometimes, you just need more pages for that, to be in the world longer. People with a shorter attention span or tendencies to imagine that they are the protagonist (something I grew out of) will probably adore Tithe. The pacing was also uneven, what we get of the story feels right as we read it, description balanced nicely with action, but it jumps too often, and there was little time given to showing us what the protagonists actually thought about all that was going on. The action takes place over a couple of days, but it slows down often enough that I felt more reflection from the point of view characters would have fit in nicely.