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294 reviews for:
The Vela: The Complete Season 1
Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, Yoon Ha Lee, S.L. Huang
3.83 AVERAGE
294 reviews for:
The Vela: The Complete Season 1
Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, Yoon Ha Lee, S.L. Huang
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
drawn by Yoon Ha Lee, and it took me quite a while to be truly interested in the narrative. ultimately interested in the characters and the way chapters explored unexpected new places and dynamics in ways that ultimately tied the story together in a way with a lot of potential after story.
I liked this and recommend it! I think it did some really interesting and good plot twists, I thought that the characters were very realistic, I thought that the way this like, young idealistic character talked to the older more world-weary character was very good, I had a good time. I thought that in parts it was very clear that it was an episodic thing, like it had a little more "last time on the Vela" than I normally see in books, but I mean that's fine. Will def be reading the next one
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A silly space adventure. If it had stayed a silly space adventure, no harm done. Unfortunately, it aspired to big themes and fell flat. I like all the authors on the project. Don't know if it was a case of too many cooks or they just all had a bit more maturing to do or, probably, a bit of both, but the characters are frustratingly dull,. They make unfathomable decisions and have the same developments over and over again because to do otherwise would disrupt the incredibly fragile, contrived plot. There's an attempt made at the marvel movie morality of "oh, these people are completely reasonable critics of the system, better make them KICK PUPPIES so nobody sympathizes" and "this raging fascist maniac is complicated, actually" but then they forget to make the supposed extremists actually do anything bad? Even the clusterfuck at the end seems to be mostly a matter of poor communication that's entirely the main characters' fault. I don't know, maybe the whole ethos that it's morally equivalent to work with slightly questionable rebels or let evil dictators have everything they want just aged... badly. And then it all ends on what's clearly supposed to be And What Will Our Heroes Do Next? But instead it's just, oh, these useless twerps accomplished nothing in this much too long quest and there's not even closure. If you can turn your brain off for the pewpew battles and don't mind that people monologue in cutscenes all the time without anybody acting to prevent them from doing the terrible and asinine things they're doing, you could have a good time.
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-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
This book was boring. None of the characters are likeable. But the writing wasn't bad. It just felt so ... Formulaic and like it's a screenplay versus a detailed narrative which is strange considering it was some sort of podcast serial.
I finished the book just to see if anything cool or interesting or emotionally gripping happened, and it did not. I don't know if it was the narrator or the fact that 4 authors attempted to write a story together so lost their own individual voices that would grip a reader.
I finished the book just to see if anything cool or interesting or emotionally gripping happened, and it did not. I don't know if it was the narrator or the fact that 4 authors attempted to write a story together so lost their own individual voices that would grip a reader.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I really liked this, the characters were unique and multi-faceted. I felt like I got lost a few times in the story though, so I'm only giving 4.5 stars.
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
The only reason I’m not marking this as five stars it because I was disappointed with the ending.
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced