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dignin33's review
4.0
I enjoyed the story and didn't quite know where it was headed, which is a good thing. The social commentary seemed a bit odd at first, but in the end the idea that we are individuals and we can each contribute to the whole is not earth shattering, but refreshing to read. Thanks Hugh.
payal_reads_alot's review
4.0
quick read. engaging. thrilling. kept me guessing till the end. Another awesome book by the author.
snowbenton's review against another edition
2.0
It's like he tried to rewrite Lord of the Flies but he'd just read Anthem and couldn't quite mesh the two trains of thought.
blaarrosir's review
5.0
Half Way Home was a sort of apocalyptic novel. In the far future worlds send out pods of embryos to claim and inhabit other worlds and bring profit for themselves. If the world they land on is habitable a colony is formed and the embryos are grown into adults. If the world isn't habitable the embryos are destroyed. Half Way Home is the story of one of the colonies of embryos that awake 15 years early after the colony tries to abort them then changes its mind. It follows the survivors of the abort and how their numbers divide between those who do whatever the colony's artificial intelligence wants them to and those that have minds of their own and question what they're being told. The characters are on the bland side, but the story itself is interesting. I enjoyed reading it.
aprater's review
5.0
I really need to be careful when I start Hugh Howey's books, they tend to take on a life of their own in my head during all of the hours I can't read them and before I know it, I'm taking extra breaks to read just one more chapter...
lisamcd's review against another edition
5.0
So far, this is great. Really wish the story was longer.
I am loving this author!
I am loving this author!
openmypages's review
3.0
Honestly, I'll read anything that Hugh Howey writes. I love the sci-fi worlds he creates. This one had a very Wayward Pines meets Lord of the Flies vibe. I enjoyed the characters and believed the underlying theme that the biggest conflict facing them was themselves. Honestly, I would have rated this one more highly if it had been longer and better fleshed out. I wanted to know what happened to the Colony in a year, in five years and so on.
battykat's review against another edition
4.0
I would have given this 5 stars.
But WHY would a future AI, program shame about sexual orientation into a child?
But WHY would a future AI, program shame about sexual orientation into a child?