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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
If you know a reader who's struggling to get into sci-fi or anthologies, this is a great entry point to both! These stories are accessible, entertaining, and all feel very different.
Individual ratings:
- Inertia: 4 stars. I read this in [b:Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories|25063781|Summer Days and Summer Nights Twelve Love Stories|Stephanie Perkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1443125284l/25063781._SY75_.jpg|44747642] and it REALLY tugged at my heart strings
- The Spinners: 4 stars. Kinda cheesy, but I liked the spacey/Animorphs/supernatural family revenge story.
- Hearken: 4 stars. I loooooove difficult family relationships and this blended music and sci-fi so interestingly!
- Vim and Vigor: 4 stars. A really cute ode to fandom and grief
- Armored ones: 4 stars. I've not read Carve the Mark but I nonetheless enjoyed this tale of people learning whether they have it in themselves to kill.
- The Transformationist: 4 stars. I LOVE CULTS AND TOXIC PARENTS
Individual ratings:
- Inertia: 4 stars. I read this in [b:Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories|25063781|Summer Days and Summer Nights Twelve Love Stories|Stephanie Perkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1443125284l/25063781._SY75_.jpg|44747642] and it REALLY tugged at my heart strings
- The Spinners: 4 stars. Kinda cheesy, but I liked the spacey/Animorphs/supernatural family revenge story.
- Hearken: 4 stars. I loooooove difficult family relationships and this blended music and sci-fi so interestingly!
- Vim and Vigor: 4 stars. A really cute ode to fandom and grief
- Armored ones: 4 stars. I've not read Carve the Mark but I nonetheless enjoyed this tale of people learning whether they have it in themselves to kill.
- The Transformationist: 4 stars. I LOVE CULTS AND TOXIC PARENTS
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
6 short stories and only one of them didn’t bore me to death. Wish there was an entire book about the Harkeners.
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Descent over all.
Inertia- 3 stars
The spinners- 3 stars, and side note huge episode 1 of supernatural vibes.
Hearken- 5 stars, I really enjoyed this story.
Vim and Vigor- 3 stars
Armored ones- 4/4.5 stars, I really liked the 2 stories but felt there was no ending.
The Transformationist- 4 stars
Inertia- 3 stars
The spinners- 3 stars, and side note huge episode 1 of supernatural vibes.
Hearken- 5 stars, I really enjoyed this story.
Vim and Vigor- 3 stars
Armored ones- 4/4.5 stars, I really liked the 2 stories but felt there was no ending.
The Transformationist- 4 stars
This is a book I really enjoyed since I am in love with Veronica Roth as a writer. I have never really read a short story book like this before so it was really interesting seeing that for the first time. I really loved all of the shortstories even though I had a hard time really getting into some of them, they really were some think about your life stories. I really liked ''Armored Ones'' since it's connected to the ''Carve The Mark'' series which I have read before. So yeah I really like this SciFi theme she has going on in here.
Second time reading the book, second time loving it. What can I say, I'm a sucker for Veronica Roth's books.
It's just the type of stories the teenager in me needed: sci-fi / speculative fiction, bonds between people, grief, guilt, overcoming hardships, and a few queer people (we always need queer people).
I even wish some of these short stories were longer.
It's just the type of stories the teenager in me needed: sci-fi / speculative fiction, bonds between people, grief, guilt, overcoming hardships, and a few queer people (we always need queer people).
I even wish some of these short stories were longer.
70%
"We admire their strength, as adults, and pity them, as children, but do not reflect on the change. They cannot refuse to change. Everything is a clock in this universe; everything must grow to adulthood. And reaching that point is not always pleasant, you see?"
In order of preference:
1.) Hearken - the concept of being able to hear people's life/death songs due to their cellular makeup is a very interesting one. while this particular story didn't feel like it needed an extension, the world it lives in would be a fascinating one to read more about
2.) Armored Ones - this one should've come in first, because conceptually I am SO intrigued, but due to its status as a short story, I am devastated. Both stories deserve so much more
3.) The Transformationist - a survivor of abuse story about forgiving yourself
4.) The Spinners - a family revenge story featuring rekindling connections
5.) Vim and Vigor - a friendship story about overcoming shared traumas
6.) Inertia - a love story about mistakes and second chances
"Was he bruised beyond recognition? Or were his injuries the worse kind, the ones that hid under the surface of the skin, giving false hope"
"Some habits of friendship were like muscle memory, rising up even when everything else had changed. I knew our jokes, our rhythms, the choreography of our friendship."
"It was more than that, of course. I hated it when I was upset and people tried to reassure me, like they were stuffing my pain into a little box and handing it back to me like, See? It's actually not that big a deal."
"Gotta support the cause. They always talked about the Protectors like that, as more than just a bunch of comics. They were a cause, because they were stories about women being heroes, not just spunky reporters or love interests who were sacrificed to the latest villain."
"But it was more than that, wasn't it? Evan was intellectual, daring, opinionated. Chris was kind, open-hearted, enthusiastic. And when she was with either of them, she was those things, too; she was more than she could ever be alone. It was a choice between dates, sure, but it was also a choice between Edies. Wasn't it?"
"We admire their strength, as adults, and pity them, as children, but do not reflect on the change. They cannot refuse to change. Everything is a clock in this universe; everything must grow to adulthood. And reaching that point is not always pleasant, you see?"
In order of preference:
1.) Hearken - the concept of being able to hear people's life/death songs due to their cellular makeup is a very interesting one. while this particular story didn't feel like it needed an extension, the world it lives in would be a fascinating one to read more about
2.) Armored Ones - this one should've come in first, because conceptually I am SO intrigued, but due to its status as a short story, I am devastated. Both stories deserve so much more
3.) The Transformationist - a survivor of abuse story about forgiving yourself
4.) The Spinners - a family revenge story featuring rekindling connections
5.) Vim and Vigor - a friendship story about overcoming shared traumas
6.) Inertia - a love story about mistakes and second chances
"Was he bruised beyond recognition? Or were his injuries the worse kind, the ones that hid under the surface of the skin, giving false hope"
"Some habits of friendship were like muscle memory, rising up even when everything else had changed. I knew our jokes, our rhythms, the choreography of our friendship."
"It was more than that, of course. I hated it when I was upset and people tried to reassure me, like they were stuffing my pain into a little box and handing it back to me like, See? It's actually not that big a deal."
"Gotta support the cause. They always talked about the Protectors like that, as more than just a bunch of comics. They were a cause, because they were stories about women being heroes, not just spunky reporters or love interests who were sacrificed to the latest villain."
"But it was more than that, wasn't it? Evan was intellectual, daring, opinionated. Chris was kind, open-hearted, enthusiastic. And when she was with either of them, she was those things, too; she was more than she could ever be alone. It was a choice between dates, sure, but it was also a choice between Edies. Wasn't it?"
