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kirbymuncher posted...

I just read the first book over the past few days since I'd been meaning to for a while and the TV series motivated me to stop procrastinating and I was not particularly thrilled. felt like I read a plot/concept outlinefor a story rather than an actual proper novel; bbasically none of the characters have any personality and things just constantly happen out of nowhere with little warning or explanation. feels like there's probably some good core idea there but as it is the book is basically nonsense

The entire series is a concept series. It doesn't really have interesting characters. They tried to fix that with the Netflix show and it's debatable if that worked, but the main plot points are there, so I think it's fine. I personally enjoy a lot of the ideas in the trilogy but don't actually consider it well written fiction. Would be better as like the background lore to a fiction setting or something.