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ace-trainer-risu · 2 years ago

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I'm listening to this hard(ish) sci fi novel on audiobook and its not, like, the greatest thing I've ever read, but it's more or less fine and I was basically enjoying it, and then like 85% of the way through there's this completely random, illogical, unexplained, out of the blue deus ex machina. and it's so completely random and absurd that I can't even pay attention to the plot anymore, I'm just like ??????

#the main character was like stranded in this hostile wilderness #and can only avoid dying of hypothermia if she does this specific action every 45 minutes #but she loses consciousness. so first of all she should have just outright died from that.#but she just...doesn't. and she wakes up and its dawn and there's a building two feet away? and she's like oh :) great :)#where the fuck?? did that building come from??????#the book specifically and explicitly stated like ten minutes earlier that there were no buildings around #so either she somehow traveled to exactly where she needed to be while unconscious and dying #or this building just sprouted out of the fucking ground #can't emphasize enough that this is NOT a fantasy novel. it is a hard sci fi novel.#there is absolutely no in-universe explanation for why this would happen and in fact its not even ACKNOWLEDGED #that it's impossible! for this to have happened!#this is really killing this book for me :/#but I'm 88% done! i don't want to quit 88% of the way in!#anyway. SIGH.#squirrel posting #risu reads things

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