Redshirts

Redshirts

2012 • 318 pages

Ratings367

Average rating3.9

15

This could have been just an ordinary book, a 2 star maybe because it was readable, not awful. But then came the ending. The last ~25% of the book (2 out of 8 hours) was a non story. The author was out of ideas on what to write and wrote exactly that, he sort of broke that fourth wall and said that he was out od ideas, and started to pseudo talk to his readers.

The story is as silly as it sounds, and as deep as you would expect. It is a parody with Star Trek's trope of killing of non essential characters, extra actors, in every episode just for drama effect.

The characters are uninteresting and shallow, and so is the story.

For the people giving this a 5 star, I'm sorry, but FU. The best possible scenario this is a 3 star. I wouldn't recommend this book for no one.

April 21, 2021