The main characters, Gentle and Judith are not great people. I think I stopped reading mainly because I felt attached to nothing and no one in the book. Just keep in mind that my glimpse was a snapshot of a book 25% finished! If the book had been shorter, I'd probably held on, but the prospect of another 27 hours wasn't very tempting. However, if I'm not hooked by a book after 10 hours of listening, I feel like I've given it a well and proper shot at reeling me in. It never feels exactly fair to review a book I haven't finished. There's nothing wrong with her as a person, it's just that (10h in) everything she does is about her relationships with men. Barker takes a long time to get to the point, and whenever we follow the female protagonist Judith. The book fails the Bechdel test spectacularly The other planes of existence are boring places (granted, I did not see them all) I found it very hard to care for or sympathize with any of the characters. There's not a whole lot of suspense, even when tense things are happening. The frequency of them feels out of place. There's a lot of sex scenes, some just referenced and others in detail. Strange rituals and secret societies, yes please!īarker's writing can feel meandering and aimless. Sadly, it doesn't happen that often, but the mix of the mundane and the fantastic is something I like. Barker lets mysterious stuff happens, when there's the occult and the weirdness at work. Simon Vance is a superb narrator and elevates the work. The gradual discovery of a more supernatural reality feels overall reasonable There's mystery stuff, and I do like mystery stuff! The sex scenes I encountered were a nice blend of graphic descriptions that didn't go completely overboard. There's mystery, magic and erotica along the way as they seek to find out the secrets behind the impending, ominous, possibly world ending 'reconciliation'.īarker can be a deft writer when he wants to, and has a way with words.

In super short, Imajica is about a man and a woman finding out that the earth is just one plane of existence out of five- and that for some reason, it has been more or less cut off from the other four. Couldn't finish the book, but I still wanted to write a review to get it out of my system. Disclaimer: I've listened to Imajica as an audio book.

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