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The end of this section is where things started to get good for me though. I'm a sucker for the school trope.
The Passage is brutal though. I liked Julian. I'm a bit sad he died so soon.
Yeah nothing too shocking up until the passage. I'm a sucker for the school trope as well.I think we were meant to like Julian but the passage serves to remind us what Darrow's purpose is.
I never understood why sci-fi always uses Roman culture so much. Usually it is just in the naming of planets or ships but here it looks like they are basing their Gold society on the Roman gods traits.
The book definitely got better at this point. He does tend to go into detail about one item and then gloss over another. I'm at chapter 32 and don't want to include examples in case there from later than chapter 19. I think the world and science are interesting and the character development is lacking and\or inconsistent.
The pace improved a little bit in this part, but I still don't know how I feel about Darrow. I would like for him to do stuff and not just have things happen to him (or just his reactions to those things). Hopefully with the new setting and characters there will be more interactions and less time in Darrow's head.
That last scene was brutal, I agree. I feel that the author made Julian a likable guy, so the reader would have more of a reaction to what Darrow had to do. I would really like to see Darrow make some choices instead of just following the path that they are paving before him. I am still interested to see where this story is going.
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