WeTheSalty t1_ivtrwme wrote on November 10, 2022 at 3:37 PM

Reply to comment by Sad_King_Billy-19 in All Systems Red by Martha Wells by angryscout2

>when I got to full length novel it never really grabbed me like the others had.

Same. It was good, but it didn't feel like a part of the story. The first four novella are all kind of connected and complete an overall story. You could probably stitch them together and call it a long novel. The novel just feels kind of "extra" as does the novella that comes after it.

Gadwynllas t1_ivtu0u1 wrote on November 10, 2022 at 3:51 PM

Yeah I get that. The novellas get to keep introducing new things and people and guilt and they have incredible pacing. By the time the novel hits you know a lot of the world and characters and there’s less “new”, so there’s slower pacing and more in depth world building. Or maybe not in depth, but, broader? I dug the novel, but agree the pacing is very different