Review Detail

What Left Me Wanting More

Where do I start? This book was so much work to read. I had to literally push myself to pick it up. The story was that incredibly slow.

The first half had very little action in it. It was filled with information dumps. The second part picked up a bit but was still super slow.

Also, except for maybe Nicholas, I really didn’t connect with the characters at all. Etta was not a typical teenager and she came across as being somewhat arrogant. I also didn’t get Sophia. She was mean one minute and thoughtful the next.

Next, the time traveling. The method and rules of the time traveling were super complicated and very hard for me to follow. In fact there was more explanation of time traveling ‘rules’ and back story than real-time traveling.

Another one of the things that really got to me in this book was the repetition in the dialog . For example Alice, Etta’s music teacher, was mentioned on almost every page. (I read this book on my Kindle and when I queried the character of Alice, she was mentioned over two hundred times.)

Some things just didn’t make any sense to me. For example, Etta is in a foreign time and in a foreign place with no basic necessities. She also fears for her life and her mother’s life. Despite all these issues she spends a great deal of time thinking about how much she loves Nicholas.

Finally, the length of this book was way too long. It is over 500 pages. It could have easily been edited down 150 pages or so and not affected the story. It reminded me of ‘The Goldfinch’, in that there was so much of the story line that stretched out way longer then it needed to be.

My Final Verdict

‘Passenger’ was just not what I wanted it to be. The story is just incredibly slow. The main plot and characters were interesting but that just wasn’t enough. I do want to find out what happens next but most likely will not read the next book in the series.