Janet (iamltr)'s Reviews > The Ferryman

The only word I can come up with in regards to this book was long.

This was a very long book. It did not need to be so long and it would have made getting through the story so much better.

Spoilers ahead

I can actually spoil this with one really old reference. Do you remember Dallas? Do you remember how Bobby came back to life?

Anyways, in here we have Proctor Bennett, a man who has a job offboarding people from Prospera. Things are going along normally until his "dad" tells him something and then things start to go sideways.

There was so many details in here. SO MANY

I knew that this was going to be a long title, I mean, I read the writers other books, but I dunno, I think you can get away with writing a good story with less pages.

I will hide this part behind a spoiler tag as I did not see anyone mention this in a review, (view spoiler)[ but all the people are in stasis and are living in a shared dream environment as they are going to a new planet. There is a class divide, even in stasis and some people are treated badly. When they are woken up, the uppers had to be separated as the rest of the people hated them, Proctor Bennet included. Bennet was the captain of the ship they were all in and after telling everyone else that he made a deal with the uppers, stayed behind when everyone else was shipped down to the new planet. But you see, it was Bennet who created the world where people struggled to live. There are some bullcrap ideas about why he did it, but in the end? He stayed behind when the others left because he wants to treat the uppers the same way. Make them suffer so that they can be happy when they get to where ever they end up. He kept a woman behind for himself. He also left a baby behind that he didnt know of. (hide spoiler)]

Needless to say that I did not like this mc. Its hard to enjoy a story when you are hoping the main protagonist gets tossed overboard and not get his HEA.