Made it to chapter 27. Started at the end of June after reading four books for the month and have struggled bored with this one and I’m just over it.
I loved the cover art and the concept of the story sounds like something right up my alley but I just found it to continue to lag and lag.
I don’t know how it’s managed to get so many sequels but willing to hear people out on this thread.
I briefly started to take interested as it was a weird romance or daddy issue between Cora and ampersand but taking 220 pages to reach it to be let down more was enough.
by TheDayOfff
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I couldn’t get into it either. Liked some of the author’s YouTube videos, but her style wasn’t for me.
That was me about “Knock at the Cabin”. Such a waste of a book. Sadly, i did finish it and I’ll never get that time back.
Listened to it on audiobook, made it a lot easier to just go with it.
I started reading this because I like Lindsay Ellis and my friend recommended her book, but I couldn’t get into it either. I didn’t get that far but I was turned off by the simplistic tell-not-show writing style.
The writing was simplistic, the plot meandering, and the themes trite or fading into nothing. I read it because I liked the author’s old YouTube videos…. I should have DNFd.
I think it got the sequels it did because it was originally signed with the publisher as a trilogy and she had the fan base to sell it.
Honestly I have never heard anything good about this book. It strikes me as another case of a youtuber who is known for picking apart other people’s works, failing the “lets see you do better” test.
I believe I abandoned it around 50 pages before the ending. I was trying to power through, but it felt naïve and just not for me.
I love Lindsay’s videos tho.
You like YouTuber books, check out the Jacques Mckeown sci-fi trilogy by Yahtzee Croshaw.
I had to DNF too. The characters felt underdeveloped, and there was absolutely no plot.
I finished the book, but I honestly can’t blame others for not finishing it.
Years ago I read a theory about the collapse in sales of YA dystopian novels, and how it was likely caused by the election of Donald Trump, because it made the dystopian parts of those novels suddenly remind the often liberal readers of the genre too much of the real life they found depressing and were trying to escape from. And quite frankly Axiom’s End really felt like the perfect example of a novel that fell into that trap of being too grim and depressing (especially for those with liberal political views) while also staying realistic enough to not feel like a fictional fantasy world.