The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Thank you NetGalley and John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books for providing me with an ARC of The Spaceship Next Door in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
The Gist
I was in a really good space, reading-wise when I started this book. On a book high, if you want to call it that.
I was pumped by having just finished a string of really good stories and I was eager to continue digging my nose into books and getting lost in stories that made it feel good to curl up with a book and a cup of tea.
I’m not sure what happened, but I hit a slump around the time I started this one.
The Details
It was slow. Oh, so slow. It was probably the slowest start to a story I had read in a while. It also felt like the reader should already know all the characters by the second page.
It had a very inclusive sort of feeling. If the reader isn’t quick to catch on who is who, then the reader isn’t worth it.
Certainly, very off-putting.
There really wasn’t much going on for the first half of the book and I really didn’t care about the second half.
Call me entitled, but I won’t suffer through the first half of a very slow story that really doesn’t care about its audience, just to be slightly compensated by a less slow second half of the story.
The Verdict
Overall, give me at least something to find interesting and worthwhile to keep reading 300+ pages of a book.
Sadly, this one wasn’t for me.
