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adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I came to this series having read Fonda Lee’s other series The Green Bone Saga (which I highly recommend!!!).
I tell myself I’m not a big sci-fi person, but I also haven’t read a ton of it, and what I have read I haven’t loved (with a couple exceptions). This falls into that category. Fonda is really good at world building, but if I didn’t know it was written by the same author as GBS I never would’ve guessed. GBS is on a whole other LEVEL!!! I wasn’t blown away by this and it didn’t capture my full attention really. Idk if I would read the sequel, I’m like mildly curious what happens but I also feel like I could *probably* guess how it ends. There’s a bit of a romance subplot but it felt very YA insta-love-y.
There’s little details that don’t make sense for such a futuristic sci-fi novel - like idk if they said exactly what year it would be hypothetically, but this was published in 2017 and I think they said there had been 100 years of peace with the aliens so like….. why do they have plastic bottles and garbage bags? In all that time with advanced alien technology things like that haven’t changed? This was surprising to me because Lee’s other series the attention to these minor details is superbly done. It’s surprising that she wrote this series in tandem almost with GBS.
I tell myself I’m not a big sci-fi person, but I also haven’t read a ton of it, and what I have read I haven’t loved (with a couple exceptions). This falls into that category. Fonda is really good at world building, but if I didn’t know it was written by the same author as GBS I never would’ve guessed. GBS is on a whole other LEVEL!!! I wasn’t blown away by this and it didn’t capture my full attention really. Idk if I would read the sequel, I’m like mildly curious what happens but I also feel like I could *probably* guess how it ends. There’s a bit of a romance subplot but it felt very YA insta-love-y.
There’s little details that don’t make sense for such a futuristic sci-fi novel - like idk if they said exactly what year it would be hypothetically, but this was published in 2017 and I think they said there had been 100 years of peace with the aliens so like….. why do they have plastic bottles and garbage bags? In all that time with advanced alien technology things like that haven’t changed? This was surprising to me because Lee’s other series the attention to these minor details is superbly done. It’s surprising that she wrote this series in tandem almost with GBS.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, and Abandonment
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, Body shaming, Medical trauma, War, and Colonisation
Minor: Drug use, Body horror, and Child death
Animal cruelty/testing is referenced without graphic detail but
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