dellis@bookwyrm.social reviewed Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas
There are only three real powers in the universe: the corporate power of the Trust …
Not for me
2 stars
Content warning Here are the problems:
At first, I thought this would be a beach read, not anything heavy or anything, just a good ol' space adventure. I made it about 90% through but gave up. Everyone from the characters to the narrators loves their 20th century idioms. It seems unlikely that either hundreds of years in the future that those idioms will survive. And there is a lot of telling instead of showing. You could probably chop fifty pages of exposition and it wouldn't affect the story line.
The blurb on the book cover mentioned that this is like a Becky Chambers' novel. Well, if you mean there are spaceships, then yes. Is it anything else like a Chambers' novel? no.
On the plus side, the characters are interesting, and the plot is ok. Two stars, it might work for you, but it didn't do anything for me.
