DNF: Starsight
DNF #89: Starsight (Skyward book #2) by Brandon Sanderson. I tried so hard to like this book. I loved the first book so much, but I just couldn't with this one.
The main character, Spensa, was annoying in the first book, but she grew up a lot. It seemed like all that progress was lost when book 2 started.
M-Bot, a super intelligent AI, in this book seemed like a bratty younger brother, complete with bathroom jokes.
The first book's plot was so believable. This book's plot was the opposite. So much didn't make sense.
For some reason in this book Sanderson had zero clue about time flows. For example:
Character 1 suddenly gets important knowledge, but it will expire in exactly five seconds.
Character 2 has a conversation with her.
Character 1 climbs out of the cockpit, kisses 2. This is their first kiss, it's a lingering thing.
Character 1 returns to the cockpit.
Character 2 holds yet another conversation with her.
Once it's finished, character 1 is all I HAVE TO GO. And of course she didn't lose the information. There were two literal conversations! And climbing in and out of a cockpit had to take more than five seconds. The kiss alone had to take longer!
This happened repeatedly. Like two characters having a conversation, then one holds an entire side conversation with the AI in her head and goes off to spy for a bit, then returns to the conversation without the other character noticing any time has passed.
Sadly DNFed a third of the way in.