Review – Octavia Gone
I never understood how people read “before bed”: an hour of reading in bed, then just put the book down, turn off the lights, and put your head on a pillow. If I were to do that, I’d be lying wide awake thinking about everything I just read and imagining what might happen next.
Well, that was until I read Octavia Gone.
Reading this book is the most relaxed I’ve ever felt reading a book. It was quite tranquil to read about the slow paced, measured investigation done by a practically uninterested party. The pace picks up a bit towards the end of the novel, when the characters are close to unraveling one of the mysteries. However, even that is told in an almost dissociative manner.
At the end of the novel, for the first time, the stakes are high. However, that gets resolved within 5 pages and thus is a tad anticlimactic.
Interestingly enough, I wasn’t bored reading this book. Overall, I’d say it’s a meh book. So, if you’re looking for a book to relax with, read it! Except the prologue. Skip the prologue. It adds absolutely nothing and was painfully slow.
Also, beware: in the first few chapters, I had a really hard time differentiating between the characters, such that half the time I didn’t know who was talking and who was who.
