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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
So I was really enjoying this until the end. The last 25% was not the direction I saw it going, and the book ended before we even got to the major point of the plot.
It was trying to mirror The Martian - by Andy Weir, which is my favorite book, and it fell super flat.
It was trying to mirror The Martian - by Andy Weir, which is my favorite book, and it fell super flat.
3.5 rounded up.
Looooved the first half. Basically picture Hogwarts but for space nerds. Lost steam with the second half of the book. Could have done without the relationship that ends up happening, just felt a little icky. Also, be warned, this is one of those books where the dialogue doesn’t have quotation marks. For why???
Looooved the first half. Basically picture Hogwarts but for space nerds. Lost steam with the second half of the book. Could have done without the relationship that ends up happening, just felt a little icky. Also, be warned, this is one of those books where the dialogue doesn’t have quotation marks. For why???
Tried to do too much. Skipped around without actually giving us any actual conflict or resolution.
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Super visceral close narrative of a young astronaut! I loved it. Incredibly physical descriptions of her experience being a focused and awkward kid genius and of all the work she does to get to space. Being an astronaut sounds ROUGH! Many scenes of her carefully disassembling machines and changing them and remaking them while also stretching her body in every way. June felt like a really whole character - her motivations and emotions and passions were vivid and real. One note - descriptions of this book emphasize the torrid romance, and this book is...not romantic. There is technically a thing but it feels truly insignificant in the scope of her broader amazing journey.
adventurous
challenging
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
The story was extremely compelling and readable but not a lick of it rung true. This book requires way too much suspension of disbelief and showed such a lack of understanding of science, collaboration and the space program. Too often the What? Moments pulled me from the story. The pink planet?!?! With gravity?!?! The 14 year old smarter than NASA?!?! Also what happened to her parents?
Also there is a caliber of writer that can buck the conventions of grammar. This writer has not earned that. Quotation marks exist for a reason.
Also there is a caliber of writer that can buck the conventions of grammar. This writer has not earned that. Quotation marks exist for a reason.
I probably should have known a book billed as “Jane Eyre in space” would be terrible.
In In The Quick by Kate Hope Day, we meet the book’s main character, June, at 12 years old. She is a prodigy living with her aunt and uncle. Her uncle is a high-ranking aerospace engineer working for the National Space Program. June is allowed into the NSP training academy. When June is 14, a crew that has traveled into space has lost all communication and are presumed to be dead. No team is ever sent to rescue them. We meet June again several years later when she has her first voyage into space. The remainder of the novel covers this journey to the Pink Planet.
I really wanted to like this one, but the plot fell short. It reads quickly with short chapters, but I kept losing interest, so this took me a little while to finish. Much of the middle part is very slow with little action. It does give me a good idea of the tedium that must be present when in space and how inhospitable space and other plants/moons are to human life. Some parts are incredibly atmospheric. I loved the descriptions of the Pink Planet. The reader has a great sense of what daily life is like and how hard basic survival can be in such a remote setting, when machines and parts break and have to be fixed. While on the Pink Planet, she meets James, who she knew as a child at the training program. He is highly intelligent, brooding, and arrogant. They begin a romance about 3/4 into the book. The plotting was a bit slow in the middle but speeds up a bit for the last 1/4. More is discovered about the crew that was lost in space several years before, but many questions remain unanswered.
Thank you Random House and NetGalley for providing this ARC.
I really wanted to like this one, but the plot fell short. It reads quickly with short chapters, but I kept losing interest, so this took me a little while to finish. Much of the middle part is very slow with little action. It does give me a good idea of the tedium that must be present when in space and how inhospitable space and other plants/moons are to human life. Some parts are incredibly atmospheric. I loved the descriptions of the Pink Planet. The reader has a great sense of what daily life is like and how hard basic survival can be in such a remote setting, when machines and parts break and have to be fixed. While on the Pink Planet, she meets James, who she knew as a child at the training program. He is highly intelligent, brooding, and arrogant. They begin a romance about 3/4 into the book. The plotting was a bit slow in the middle but speeds up a bit for the last 1/4. More is discovered about the crew that was lost in space several years before, but many questions remain unanswered.
Thank you Random House and NetGalley for providing this ARC.