1.46k reviews for:

Alien Clay

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.0 AVERAGE

wrongbag's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

sayshara's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

benbarian's review against another edition

4.0

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Another excellent story form teh very prolific Mr Tchaikovsky. This one full of alien creatures and weird intelligence. There is a great fighting against The Man(date), some very satisfying pontificating about the nature of live and intelligence and self with teh mirror of an alien world that did things rather differently.
As always the characters are charming and real enough. The story engaging and the ending very satisfying.
Moar please

scamscorza's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

noodoo's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

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The first half was a bit slow and dry, and a lot was really packed into the end. Generally speaking I enjoyed it, although maybe some of the parallels to current day politics are a tiny bit heavy handed.

I also am not 100% sure I loved the narrator's tone. A lot of foreshadowing and very conversational.

denver_danny's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

12_starlight's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

whattheheckbeck's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-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: Complicated

mcdog's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kimberlee_olsen's review against another edition

3.0

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I have loved reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's books in the past, but unfortunately this was not one of them. The plot concept was really interesting, but poorly executed. The first person, past tense writing style was jarring and made it harder to connect with the characters. Pacing was a bit of a let down, at times I wanted it to slow down and provide more, and other times I wanted it to speed up and get to the point. A disappointing read, but hasn't turned me off my general love of the author's work.