Reviews with content warning for Chronic illness - Persephone Station

CW: violence, death, alcohol and drug use, chronic illness, death of a parent, genocide & colonisation

I had a ton of fun with this one, and having a nonbinary character as well as tons of other queer & women characters being the main group was also just nice to experience. we love a more diverse cast! they all had great personalities and banter like an actual crew/found family.

Rosie & Kurosawa were my fave. just gonna drop one of my fave parts of the book, here:

"you know my sexual inclinations," Rosie said. "so, unless you've grown a cock since the last time I saw you, I'd recommend not trying to fuck me. it'll get you nowhere." -pg 89

my only real complaint is that the end was a bit anticlimactic, like I just wish there was a little more. it was still a good ending, though! overall, I loved this and I'm glad I read it!

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outtoexist's review

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

This book tried to do too many things for me to keep up with, and is a great example of meaningless representation. Now, I'm a big believer that we need more meaningless representation - that it shouldn't have to MEAN anything that a character is Black or nonbinary, especially in a made up sci Fi or fantasy world. However, this example of it just... Wasn't terribly well written! It is a story that is meant to be deeply queer and has tons of random racial diversity that was written by a straight cis white woman, and you can tell.

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troisha's review

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adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

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sirius_feanor's review

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

I was a bit of struggle for me to get into the story and to understand the whole world setting. But once you get that it's a pretty interesting space action book. Although, sometimes I felt as if I am reading the novelisation of a Sci-Fi TV series.
The best thing about this book was ALL the diversity and representation within characters, and the input into normalisation of using they/them pronouns for a non-binary character.

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story_goblin's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. It's a space opera/mystery thing packed with action, queer characters, and female leads. To me, though, it suffered a bit from trying to be too much- part mystery novel but also space opera, part treatise on human nature but also condemnation of corporate greed, part exploration of grief in its many forms plus the many different reactions to it but also action-packed. There just wasn't really room to do ALL of those things well. Also, honestly, the literature references were more just distracting than anything else (and I'm an English teacher). But it was vivid and intense and generally pretty neat.

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