Pariah – Dan Abnett

2 stars

Pariah leans on a whole lot of subtext that the reader doesn’t really have the means to pick up on until the last quarter of the book.

The first half dragged so much. While it was interesting getting to see life in the Maze Undue, it made it really hard to want to keep reading. It felt like a lot of trivial everyday life sorts of things that became far less interesting the more I read. It was hard for me to want to continue reading the book, and I found myself setting the book aside for days at a time.

This book is also billed as Ravenor vs. Eisenhorn, which sounds extremely cool. However, there wasn’t much of either of them in the story and what there was felt like two children fighting over a favoured toy. It didn’t flesh out as much as I thought it would and just gave me more questions than answers.

Beta herself is kinda eh for me. She’s really go with the flow; surprisingly so when her entire life gets flipped upside down. She essentially shrugs and moves on, deciding to believe the first person who tells her something contrary to what she believed and was told her entire life.

Pariah wasn’t a favourite. It was confusing and even mind-numbing in places. Here’s to hoping the next one picks up a little…..