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Alien Clay

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.0 AVERAGE

kevinkarmann's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Adrian Tchaikovsky is great, as always in creating and describing unique alien ecology and life. The premise involving totalitarianism feels very relevant. However, the first hand account with relatively little dialogue makes the story drag a bit and the characters not shine as much as I might wish. Of the 6 Tchaikovsky novels thst I have read, this is probably my lesst favorite, though it is still very good.

booktopus52's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging medium-paced

pot_licious's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

rtommyj's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kaijusoze's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

miss_maya's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark informative mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

coulda been a short story.

enjoyable overall, interesting ideas about humanity and the nature of life and connection and whatnot. loved the ending, but felt repetitive and dragged out in a lot of places. like we get it, the government is bad. succumb to the hivemind already.

leptonquark's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

When you are using an unreliable narrator, if you make him a narcissist who treats everyone else as one dimensional side characters, it doesn't matter how great the world building is, most of the characters are one dimensional side characters.

ash_denham4's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

twincorsair's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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pinenoodle's review against another edition

5.0

It's quite possible that I enjoy this book more because of how deals with a galaxy of human's riven by fascism. That fact is, though, that Tchaikovsky is great at many things, and one of those is his ability to address contemporary issues without being simplistics or grating.

And, of course, he can right an amazing story.

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