Arkhangelsk 7 - Characters
What did you think of the characters in the book? The narrators? The secondary characters you come to know? How about the less important characters? Did it blend well for you?
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The doctor - yes, memorable. The Colonel? For most of the book I thought he was like the ship's AI, but by the end I thought probably a person... but I was never sure. There seemed to be very few men - Rolf who got thrown out of the airlock, the Colonel (if a person). Anya's friend who then drugged her. Can't remember any others. Maybe women are more resistant to radiation and the rest than men?
But broadly speaking I remember the broad brush of the setting and not the individuals within it.
Yes, I'd agree - the rest of the characters definitely blended. No, I did the audio book for this one (out of necessity - the library only had a reference copy of this book, and Amazon.ca only had a hardcover for over $50). The audio used two narrators, and they had different voices - Anya sounding younger and the other more mature. So they remained distinct to my ear and brain. However, the other characters were not voice acted so they didn't have distinct voices. At this stage 2 weeks after finishing I couldn't tell you a thing about them - except maybe Anya's daughter.
I thought the characters were reasonably distinct. I had a good handle on what they wanted and why they did what they did. I can't remember names, but that's me.
It took me a while to work out Irina was Abby's hallucination. I guess it was at the start, but I didn't know if Irina was some kind of AI-assistant augmented-reality thing.
Mostly I thought the characterisation was simply hanging clothes on the frame of the plot, which was too polished to be believable. No danger anywhere.
Definitely one of the weaker points of the book in my view. The characters were distinct but generally sort of iterative of the others in their respective groups as well.