Review: The Immeasurable Heaven

The Immeasurable Heaven by Caspar Geon
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

DNF @ 11%

Admittedly, this was a rather poor effort from me but after reading just the first chapter I was dreading reading the rest.

I think this is just far too ambitious for me. It was sold to me on the fact that the cast of characters is entirely alien - ie no humans at all. I liked the idea but in reality it just means there's not really anything familiar to grasp on to.

This, in fact, doubles down on the notion by immediately introducing a wildly different universe inhabited by a bunch of different alien species whose forms of communication are anything but similar to our own, which to me felt a little too heavy-handed. Introducing the way each species communicated felt more like checking off the different senses - this one communicates by touch, this one by sight, this one by smell ... etc. Some clever ideas, but nothing particularly intriguing to hold the interest.

There was also far too much jargon to try and explain the set up and not nearly enough story happening. Again, I'll admit that I gave up pretty early on, but by 11% the book was still mostly setting the scene which boded ill for my love of fast-paced stories.

I wanted to like this but it immediately became a chore to me, and with so much to read and so little time, I decided not to punish myself with it further.

Those looking for completely out-of-the-box sci-fi stories may be interested to pick this one up, but it was a little too strange for my tastes.

With thanks to NetGalley for an ARC


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