The Luminous Dead

I'd like to congratulate everyone who participated in selling this book, because they did a fantastic job. The cover is really good, and the marketing copy makes it sound really interesting. But it's not.

This is a 400+ pages novel that should have been a 100- pages novella. The first half is just boring, but the second half graduates to tedious and annoying. The plot is repetitive, and the characters are so flat they might be crepes (plain, with no toppings). And they are also annoying. Their relationship makes no sense, and this is a typical example where we should care for them, simply because they are the characters in the book.

The “romance” is laughable at best, and it might be LGBT by definition, but it's like calling a cheeseburger vegetable because of the onion slice in it.

The first time you think “where is this going?” is the point where you should stop reading, because this is going nowhere. Seriously, there's no light at the end of the tunnel. If you want to finish it just to see how it ends, do not bother. There's nothing at the end. It just stops.

I rarely give a book worse than 3 stars because I always appreciate the effort (and I try to choose books I'll like), but in this case, I had to. If you want more specifics, read the other 1 star reviews, pretty much everything they mention is valid.

SPOILER: caving suit that has the facilities to amputate limbs within the suit? GTFO.