Book: Hard Carry (Neu Berlin Arc) by J.S. Holloway
Reviewed by Anonymous
Rating: 2/5
In Hard Carry , we follow a man named Felix who is having possibly the worst day of his life.
Felix is a smuggler, and what he smuggles is data.
We are immediately immersed in his day on the run, trying to escape someone who is after him and will do anything to get that data.
At times, the story was incredibly detailed and interesting, but then I would lose the thread and have a hard time following which character’s dialogue I was reading.
The dialogue is fast-paced, and maybe that was an intentional choice on the author’s part, but I had a difficult time staying immersed in the story because of it.
This is my first sci-fi book review, so please hear me out when I say I may not be the target audience for this book.
However, I did enjoy reading it. I thought the story itself was interesting, and I followed Felix all the way to the end because I genuinely wanted to know what would happen to him.
Overall, I think there is a good story here. The style of writing just didn’t connect with me as a reader.