And the way it's written it just seams so *easy* for him to survive-certainly, he must have had problems, but those are mostly glossed over, he has a whole ship full of stuff, and he routinely points out how something he did early on would be useful later, so when the problem does come up you already know it's solved.Īnd if the protagonist barely has a personality, no one else has any personality at all. (at length, every few pages, so you don't miss it.) that the personality he had at the beginning is totally absent, overridden by who he becomes by the end. Certainly, the protagonist finds God and humility over the course of the novel, but the narration spends the entire book lamenting that he didn't trust to providence, etc., etc. And this story *should* have had both of those. Generally, when I read a novel I expect it to have a degree of personal growth (unless a lack of growth is the point of the story) and narrative tension. And I say this as someone who has been reading and enjoying a lot of books with opinionated narrators lately.
This should have been a book I really liked, but the overbearing narrative voice ruined it.
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