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The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord

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rachaelrace's review against another edition

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2.5

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sarahkjs's review against another edition

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challenging mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

sakurastarr's review against another edition

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Just didnt have the motivation. I might come back to it.

lizzillia's review against another edition

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2.75

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. I have to admit that I struggled with this and I don't think it was purely that sci-fi is so not my genre of choice. I think it was because I never really got a handle on what was going on, I had no real connection with the characters, the world building lost me totally and it is only now I have finished and done a bit of looking around that I have found that this is the third book in a series. In fact one reviewer actually said that if you start with this book, you have very little context for what is going on in the first third of the book because you are assumed to have had the grounding in the world building from the previous books. So I wasn't going mad! This is a book about first contact and there are different planets, different cultures and aliens but I didn't get a real feel of them. And I wasn't even really sure about the feeling of Earth about first contact. I was left totally confused by this, way out of my comfort zone and perplexed why the third in a series would have made it onto the longlist. Or am I just being very unfair?