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Samael's Fire (2010)

by L.K. Rigel(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Beastie Press

series

Apocalypto

review 1: I was at a loss as to what to rate this novella. On one hand, I loved the technical terminology and the science behind the worldbuilding. I loved the adventure and the corruption and the general weirdness of blending science and religion. I love that this book has a female protagonist. On the other hand, the characters seemed to lack depth, and the main character describes an entire wardrobe as "slutty." The slut-shaming comment, which was very out-of-character for the personality that she originally presented to us, was unnecessary and disrupted the flow of the story.With some grammatical errors, the paragraphs seem to switch between first- and third-person perspective; this made the flow of the story stumble over itself.I was very intrigued by the background story and th... moree general themes, but the pacing, grammatical errors, and slut-shaming made me feel alienated from the reading experience.
review 2: (May contain spoilers)The book starts out solid and interesting. Then in the middle everything shifts and explodes into a bad plot twist. When I read the summary and it mentioned gods I figured it would be figurative, however they were not. This author put flat out religious, ridiculous, prophetic god characters into what began as a solid space apocalypse plot. It's just way too much. To have the apocalypse happen in a dystopian future while also throwing in some space tech walks a fine line between a great story plot and having too much going on. The author was doing quite well until deciding it was time to throw the whole thing off a cliff, kill off a bunch of characters, add an unconvincing romance, and let loose a "twist" in the form of gods who are suddenly the reason behind the apocalypse. Additionally the main character goes from being a fairly strong female character who holds no belief in religion to bring a forlorn, love struck, weakling who laments death and embraces the "goddess" that claims her. Nonsense. The only reason this gets two stars is because the first half of the book was a solid story. Before it went off to crazy land I was intrigued and excited to finish the book. The "teaser chapter" at the end of the book promises that the next book will be even worse than the last half of this one, so I won't even bother. Sad to see such a promising plot get blown up in the efforts of an author to reach beyond the limits of their plot line. At least there weren't any zombies, cause then it would have just been a straight up joke. less

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