[brindy]

UK, living in Scotland since 2005.

I found there were too many new concepts just thrown about with little or no exposition. Where some authors would go on and on, I found Banks to be too light on the background. I realise the books would have likely been much longer had every piece of tech or new planet had been elaborated, and for the most part much of it was minor detail, but it disconnected me from his stories.

(Edit: fixed typo)

[lproven]

Interesting... it was on another site, so I think I should not C&P someone else's words, but someone recently said that they found IMB hard work because there was just too much to absorb: it was so information-rich they found it overwhelming.

There's probably some general point in here about how one thing can't please everyone.

I recently set aside book 2 of N K Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy. I may come back to it, but while it is very original, it is at heart a post-apocalyptic fantasy series, and I am just not very into fantasy.

Yes this is a multi-award-winning series that's been praised to the skies.

Similarly several friends were recently delighted to get commemorative editions of John Crowley's Little, Big -- for me, one of the single least enjoyable, most irritating books I've ever forced myself to finish.

[brindy]

I did not enjoy Fifth Season, so never bothered going beyond that.

I didn’t enjoy the frequent switch between first, second and third person and I honestly didn’t think it was that interesting of a story, but for some reason people seem to rave about it. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.