I don’t know if anyone else would have the same issues I did because so many people seemed to have loved the book. As much as I enjoyed being able to dwell in the characters’ journeys through time and space, some plot points felt unnecessary? A weird thing to say given that I enjoyed almost every minute I spent reading this book but so many things felt unnecessary. The vagueness felt intentional at times but the degree of it didn’t really work for me and took away from my enjoyment of the story. I could not tell you what the impossible city was or what the improbable road is even though the existence of these kiddos is tied directly to those things. I finished Middlegame happy and satisfied but discussing it with friends made me realize I didn’t know half of the things that were happening. It also didn’t make the book 200 pages shorter. My love for the main characters unfortunately did not help the plot or the world this book is set in, make sense. It follows these kids from childhood well into adulthood as the navigate all the pains of growing up. Even though there is a LOT of stuff-bigger than both the MCs- going on, at its heart, Middlegame is 1000% a coming of age story. Months ago, when Middlegame had just come out, I saw someone describe this as a story about two superheroes who screw up a whole lot (paraphrased because I don’t remember who said this or even what platform I came across this description on.) That description is absolutely perfect for this boo. I want to preface this review by stating that I love Roger and Dodger so much. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him.
This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Tor.com in exchange for an honest review.
Friday, SeptemCharacters Worth Dying For: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Posted by Rashika
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