A review by beckyyreadss
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Thank God I've finished this series, I don’t know why I am carrying on with this series, my hope was this book would make sense and have an actual ending. I’m still so confused, I don’t get it. It ended on a cliffhanger, and I’m lost.  

This book is about Arthur Dent, and he hadn’t had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. After years of galactic wanderings, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There’s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all, he’s encountered most of them before.  

As mentioned in my previous reviews, I was so confused for the majority of this book. There was a lot of space stuff and there wasn’t a distinct storyline, it was just all over the place. If you ask me tomorrow what this book was, I couldn’t tell you. I generally don’t know what I've just read. The introduction of new characters including Arthur’s daughter in the last book just wasn’t needed. It felt like a children’s book where I didn’t get the joke. I still don’t get the joke. I missed the British humour and would just like that back. I still don’t know if Earth survived or if Arthur survived. 

I understood Arthur wanted to find his home and would have loved that to have been the main storyline. Now, I am a girlie who loves multiple POV, but the random switches of characters confused. I would have loved for it to have been from Arthur POV only. If it was only based on Arthur finding out about his daughter and getting to know his daughter, that would have been great, but I just felt like this book was all over the place.  

This was a disappointing series, and I should really learn to stop reading a series when I don’t enjoy the first book.  

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