Dissonance was:
- * Interesting. The concept was pretty cool.
- * A little confusing. There were pivot points, inversions, baroque events, and more. Just when I thought I'd be getting the hang of one term, another would be introduced, then I'd lose my grasp on BOTH of them. After a certain point, I gave up trying to fully understand and remember everything.
- * Waaaay too long. I got bored. By the last quarter, I was skimming like a mad woman.
- * Repetitive. A lot of the book was just going on "assignments", visiting worlds, and pointing out technical aspects of them. Over, and over again. It's like reading about a character going to math class every day, but this "math class" was more of a "world hopping" class.
- * Weird in the romance department. I don't even know how to explain it, it was just strange. She dated like 3 "versions" of the same guy.. at once..
- * Pretty cool with the secrets and conspiracies. I really love that kind of thing in a book.
I wasn't crazy about Dissonance just because it was sooooooo freaking long, and that made it boring. Then mix in the other issues like the repetitiveness, odd romance, and confusion, and it wasn't a fabulous book. But it was an interesting idea and I did love the "big organization is hiding things" part of the book. I wish I had a chance to see it develop more!
Dissonance had a lot of potential. I think it would have been better if the characters were a bit more relatable and like one third of the book was cut out. Seriously, it was way too long!