Tuesday 25 September 2018

REVIEW! Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves

I would like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC for Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves. Unfortunately, I could not finish this book and ended up DNF'ing this at only 17%

My Rating:


So the blurb for this book (taken from Goodreads) is:
Aaron Sheridan doesn’t want to live anymore. His entire family had just died in a shuttle crash and he’d been the one flying it. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station.

Initially, he’s detached from the brutality of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics of the other students there, but after he sticks up for his only friend he makes himself a target of the most feared cadet on the station, Caelus Erik. Unsure of whom to trust and worried that anything he does will make others on his flight team targets as well, Aaron retreats deeper and deeper inside himself. However, when he discovers that officer training is not the station’s only purpose, it becomes increasingly clear that risking everything is the safest thing he can do.

Contains: Strong language and some violence

I couldn't connect with the characters at all and a lot of the descriptions are quite confusing. I requested this because it sounded quite promising, and I've been more into sci fi books as of late. However, I was left disappointed with this, I don't know if it was the writing style or just me, but I really struggled to get through this. It is a shame because a majority of reviews I've seen are 4 or 5 stars, I believe this is the first of a series, but by the fact that I didn't even finish this one, I won't be reading the rest.

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