BW Media Spotlight

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

In the previous two chapters, which I had to review at the same time due to how short chapter one was and how it felt like one chapter anyway, we still didn’t get to meet our main character. Instead the time was spent setting up the world and how Jake ended up in cryosleep for his crimes…which frankly doesn’t make a lot of sense. It’s not much of a punishment if you sleep through it all and acclimating back into society would be harder than it already is when you actually spend the time in jail. Plus it would be more expensive having to maintain all that equipment, the prisoner’s life, and considering it’s stationed practically in space that’s even more money and maintenance. It’s one of those things that sounds cool but doesn’t make sense in hindsight. Still, “cool” is what we’re going for so that’s what you get.

I’m assuming in this chapter we finally get to meet old Jake Cardigan. The next chapter after this is actually longer while this chapter reaches the minimum length for a decent chapter review so it’s just the one tonight. Prepare your frozen sweater jokes and let’s see if we actually meet him or if this is just seven pages exploring the unfreezing process. The trip here was explained in detail so that might be the case again. I haven’t read it yet this time.

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