The skips were used to get the author out of a corner or they removed needless info that bogged the story down. The story moves along well, but it skips over scenes.

It’s entertaining and sometimes frustrating. I don’t because sometimes a story is just a story.Īnd that’s how I looked at Company Town. There are people that scour the text looking for what the author is really trying to say. But I tend to read fiction at face value. Of course, no two people need to have the same view on a work of fiction. Maybe Anders was reading too much into the story or maybe I didn’t look at it hard enough. It’s a point of view that I didn’t get from Company Town. That’s what io9’s Charlie Jane Anders had in her review.Īnders also looked at the story’s deeper meaning on what it would mean to be human in a posthuman world. It could be that Company Town is a separation of what the genre normally produces. To be fair, I don’t have a lot of experience with posthuman science fiction stories. Some arcs were more entertaining than the others, but overall it’s not a bad. Oh, and Hwa has some self-esteem issues stemming from her upbringing and her less than ideal mother.Īnd all of this takes place on an oil rig off the coast of Canada. Then there’s a love story between Hwa and her boss Daniel. Hwa also tries to solve her friends’ violent murders. The main plot follows the protagonist, Go Jung-hwa as she protects a rich kid from an unknown assassin.

By no means were they bad enough to deem the story as a waste of time. I had a few issues with some scenes in the book, but you could count those one one hand. That’s the question I had after finishing Company Town by Madeline Ashby. What do you say about a story that was a big bowl of meh?

Company town by madeline ashby