Marte Rojo

I did enjoy large swathes of this book, at times it did feel like everything was a bit too long though, It also was kind of annoying to me that we mostly follow the people I like the least in the book frank, john, and maya. It was fun and I probably will continue on to the next one, just need a little breather first. Hopefully that will have some better characters that I can spend time with, more like Nadia and Michel which were way better, but sadly a really small part of the story.

It felt like mostly this story was about making communism sound palatable to americans all in all, which is a bit much for me. It does also seem pretty huge on stereotyping every nation that isn't american down to a couple of things which is kind of standard fare, but kind of annoying.

Rating this "no stars".

I struggled to read this and tried to like it.

Not because it was a bad book. It’s an excellent book and I see why it is an award winner.

The problem is the people in this book are the worst of us and you could see exactly how what happens in this book is happening now. Not one of the characters has much of a redeeming quality. The one idealist in the bunch gets murdered in the opening chapter even.

I normally breeze through a book but I could barely read a chapter before I had to put it down. Just couldn’t like anyone in the book and the world they live in isn’t one I wanted to be a part of.