Gameboard of
the Gods (Age of X #1)
Richelle
Mead
ISBN:
978-0-525-95368-5
*This is a
review of an uncorrected galley I received from NetGalley*
3.5 Stars
Praetorian
soldier Mae Koskinen is given an unlikely assignment, which she can only view
as punishment, to bring back an exile to the Republic of North America (RUNA).
Justin March, who was exiled due to a job performance failure, accepts his
second chance. His new assignment is to track down the cultists’ involved in
some unsolved murders. Her job is to keep him safe. Besides the tension between them, other
dangers threaten to gain control of their futuristic world where humans will be
merely players on a gameboard.
I really
wanted to like this one a lot more. The pacing felt agonizingly slow and the
action seemed sparse considering the plot.
That could have been overlooked more if there would have been more of a
connection with the characters. I was
not invested in Mae and Justin until almost the end but mainly I was indifferent
to Justin throughout the whole novel. There were minor characters I was more
interested in. This ended up being all about the plot for me. It’s original (at
least in my reading experience) and intriguing. The need to know pushed me to
the end and I made me grateful that I stuck it out. I will read the future
installments to see where they lead.
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