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Blindsight by Peter Watts

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avocadochicken's review

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

What a great book, I started this years ago but knew I’d never finished it, I’m glad I have now

I think people describe this as horror, and I kinda see it; “Are there or are there not spooky aliens in this thing?” But I didn’t find it very scary

bit of a downer ending maybe (with shades of childhood’s end, this is the second book this year I’ve read with the last human observing the end of humanity)

jdunnington101's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

jenhurst's review against another edition

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4.0

I attempted to read starfish by this author and really hated it so I was a little hesitant to read another book by Peter Watts. But I’m really happy I gave him another chance. This book is really weird, like vampires in scifi. I loved it. I’m going to reread this at some point, since I’m sure some of the hard scifi elements I didn’t fully grasp.

lbonsen's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

thetimmeister's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

sable222's review against another edition

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challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Really hard to follow book, the world-building was all over the place and it just didn’t do it for me. The parts about sentience was interesting but overall it just tried to do to much in one small book.