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Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

12 reviews

aroundthecorner's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book … it captivated me and pissed me off at the same time. 
A group of young teenagers who train for and eventually go on a 20+year Spacetrip. 

Non-spoilery Flaws in the book:
I really found that there could have been more continued exploration of the characters. Some of the growth was sudden and weirdly unexplained. Some seemed to be forgotten in between and some were really unnecessary and just there. 
Still, it kept me going until the very end and I can’t say I was disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Death

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Eating disorder, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

crweber25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide, Car accident, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Death, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Ableism

hkingcrab's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

A slow burn and suspense novel about kids and a futuristic world that parallels colonialism <3 through space travel. I still think about these characters and this story even after a couple years since reading. I would definitely reread it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Blood, Colonisation, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

ollie_again's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Bullying, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Self harm, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

grimviolins's review

dark tense slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Cancer

Minor: Eating disorder

stayshomeandreads's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

nyoom's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia

cerilouisereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Vomit

Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Bullying, Eating disorder, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Terminal illness

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Car accident, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

imrereads's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense slow-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

4.0

This wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but I found myself sucked into the stort nevertheless. The biggest way it diverged from my expectations is that it's very much a character-driven books, rather than plot-driven. 

There's quite a diverse cast of characters, many whom I loved and a few which I very much disliked (looking at you, Harry). 

While at it's heart this is a stoey about reaching this utopian planet Terra-Two, a more thsn two dacade long journey away, it's much more and much less than that. All these different characters with all their conplexities and flaws gets their moment in the spotlight. As the main characters are very young, there's very much 'young drama' as well, which sometimes felt a bit meh (to me as an adult), but I had a great time in this story. I didn't think I was going to be all that invested in the beginning, but by the end I was very emotional. 

If you're looking for a character-driven sci-fi and don't mind inaccurate and (what I completely unedcuatedly assume is) somewhat unrealistic space travel history, you might just love this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Cancer, Bullying, Confinement, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Car accident