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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
English translation from German. It's good, along the lines of Ursula LeGuin, who I adore. It's fairly poetic, and I'm not sure whether to thank the translator or the original author for that! It's also *very* political and philosophical. By example, not by preaching. The whole book is serious little vignettes of various people involved one way or another in a galactic revolution. It's not really about the drama of the revolution, but instead how you can control a population and how populations deal with change. It covers a huge amount of political and psychological ground, fairly efficiently. So efficiently that I think each storyline probably could have been a whole novel on its own! But I like the way they fit together and the last thing we need is another sweeping, endless, speculative saga. :)
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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
This was the first mosaic novel I ever read and it took a while for me to understand the format. Each chapter stands as a short story, complete in itself, yet the picture they make when woven together! Incredible! It’s world building unlike anything else I’ve read.
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Brutal!! It was comic how horrifying things were that happened to all the characters. I was driven through this whole book with curiosity that just continued to grow as each story took me into more and more surprising territory. Every detail was absurd.
I really enjoyed the format with the short stories all threaded together to form a question, an exploration, and then finally an end. It was satisfying in a strange way that I really appreciate.
I really enjoyed the format with the short stories all threaded together to form a question, an exploration, and then finally an end. It was satisfying in a strange way that I really appreciate.
adventurous
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
what the fuck did I just read? it's gross and sexist and reads like a short story but I'm blown away. not so much by the final reveal but a bit before that