/lit/ - Literature

>>20451675
Eversion isn't set within the Revelation Space series universe. It's entirely standalone. The main question you have to ask yourself is how much you think you'd enjoy reading about the same cast of characters sequentially going through similar scenarios at different times and locations for most of the book. If you don't mind that sort of repetition then this shouldn't be a problem for you. Eversion tries to do a lot, so in terms of genre I'd say it's a mystery adventure with a science fiction background and a few horror elements. The vast majority of its narrative takes place on a ship of some sort. It starts out as an 1800s nautical tale of an assistant surgeon as part of a crew seeking to find a location off the coast of Norway.

I didn't really care for any of the characters, but that's not uncommon for me when reading works by Reynolds. As one ought to expect from this author, the characters have memory and identity issues. My enjoyment started going downhill somewhat more than halfway through because I didn't like the current scenario or those that came after. This is also when the mysteries start being explained rather than hinted at. I found the plot and its twists to be rather lacking. Because Eversion has far fewer pages than his Revelation Space novels, I thought it the page would be appropriate. I was wrong. This should've been a novella. Apparently I wanted an entirely different story than what was written.

Maybe I would've enjoyed it a bit more if I just went through it without thinking about it at all, or didn't know anything at all about it whatsoever. I don't know. I'd be disappointed regardless. I felt like dropping it at a few points because I simply wasn't engaged at all. The further along I got the less I enjoyed myself. The main reason I read it was to have read something published this month. I had hoped it would be more somewhat more enjoyable than it was. On a whim I read this with others as well because doing stuff with others can make basically anything at least somewhat better, ideally anyway.