#Joshua james millumin book series

Looking at the structure of the novel, it very much lacks momentum or a central conflict - almost 40% in, and there still isn't any real hook. I knew coming in that this will be a story of people from multiple species working together on a spaceship, and that it is a very optimistic and comforting space opera that should feel like being hugged. I don't know what exactly this tells about me as a person, but what I've learned reading this book is that I need conflict to find a story interesting.

#Joshua james millumin book series

It's extremely underwhelming so far.ДЄ Memory Of Light - a long post is coming for this one, a post that will also cover my thought of the series as a whole, so I'll be brief here and just say I'm enjoying the hack out of it and think it's not just a great book but shaping out to be a disproportionately good ending to the series. Grim Company has probably the weakest couple of opening chapters I've seen in years, and so far it strikes me as juvenile and derivative - I'll give it a couple more hours to impress me, but I may abandon this one. In this time frame, I have advanced in and abandoned The Long Way To The Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers), finished listening to Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie), began listening to Grim Company (Luke Scull) and covered about two thirds of A Memory Of Light (Brandon Sanderson & Robert Jordan).

Had a long week standing guard duty in front of a gate nobody ever uses in the back end of nowhere (which, apparently, is the most efficient way the army figures it can use a skilled programmer), so had a *lot* of time to read and, even more, listen to audio.