Book Review: The Shroud by Adrian Tchiakovsky

 Here's the customary summary of what the book is about

 On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time.

They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .

New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.

Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud’s inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing, in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time. What follows is a gruelling journey across land, sea and air. During this time, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s dominant species. It also begins to understand them . . .

I got an ARC of this book through Netgalley. This is my review of it. 

This book was DNF at 36%. 

The concept of the story was good. The world building was good. The main problem, for me, was that the story was extremely slow and somewhat boring. I found it hard to hold my attention to what I was reading. Often, rereading the same paragraph. I cared nothing for any of the characters. 

It's too bad, it really sounded like it was going to be a very good read. It did have great covers. Sometimes, that's what draws me in. 2 stars.