Melani's Reviews > Tidal Creatures

I initially gave this four stars, but as I sat on it, the more problems started to bother me. I very much enjoyed reading it, but there are pacing problems. The final confrontation is... kind of a nothing burger? There's a lot of build-up and then nothing and it's over. I think part of the problem is that this is a bridge book, it's mostly designed to introduce the idea of the inbetween to Rodger and Dodger and it does that, but that feels like a B plot instead of the A plot, which is what it becomes.

There's also the fact that because we have a group of new characters who all start at different points and meet each other at different times, we get the same information repeated about three times. By the time we got the third repitition of the same information I was annoyed. Yes, it makes sense for the characters to do this, yes it's all done in character, but it I didn't need to read the information for the third time. It got too redundant. I think I know what McGuire was trying to do with this repetition, but it didn't work for me.