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melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Thank you so much to the publisher and the author for an ARC of this amazing book debuting on January 5th!
Angel and her team have a very important mission--to save the Indigenous life forms on Persephone from the corporation that rules the planet. This book is an action packed space opera with a great cast of female and nonbinary characters and very interesting alien lifeforms!
There is so much amazing technology happening in this book and I love the bits about AGI and anything relating to The Emissaries.
The girl squad is top notch and I loved to read about their quirks and the way they worked together. Beautiful and heart wrenching!
Leicht is a great writer and I definitely want to read more by them in the future!
My only complaint is that I felt this could have been a little shorter, as a few sections in the middle kind of dragged. But overall this book was great!
Angel and her team have a very important mission--to save the Indigenous life forms on Persephone from the corporation that rules the planet. This book is an action packed space opera with a great cast of female and nonbinary characters and very interesting alien lifeforms!
There is so much amazing technology happening in this book and I love the bits about AGI and anything relating to The Emissaries.
The girl squad is top notch and I loved to read about their quirks and the way they worked together. Beautiful and heart wrenching!
Leicht is a great writer and I definitely want to read more by them in the future!
My only complaint is that I felt this could have been a little shorter, as a few sections in the middle kind of dragged. But overall this book was great!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Xenophobia
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, and Medical content
caseythereader's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Thanks to Saga Press for the free advance copy of this book.
π Mix together a little bit space western, a little bit space opera, and a lotta badass queer women and nonbinary people, and you've got the start of PERSEPHONE STATION.
π The plot is vast and the characters are all easy to root for, even when you're not sure if they're the good guys. (Seriously, there's no way I could succinctly sum up the plot, but it's also not too hard to follow.)
π There are some truly excellent battle scenes.
π PERSEPHONE STATION also poses some interesting questions about artificial intelligence and the Singularity without getting too 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY about it.
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What I didn't like:
π The characters are pointedly racially diverse but that doesnβt really have any bearing on things - I'm not entirely sure if race doesn't mean anything in this universe (the same way it's a queernorm universe) or if the author just wasn't sure how those identities would play into the story.
π Mix together a little bit space western, a little bit space opera, and a lotta badass queer women and nonbinary people, and you've got the start of PERSEPHONE STATION.
π The plot is vast and the characters are all easy to root for, even when you're not sure if they're the good guys. (Seriously, there's no way I could succinctly sum up the plot, but it's also not too hard to follow.)
π There are some truly excellent battle scenes.
π PERSEPHONE STATION also poses some interesting questions about artificial intelligence and the Singularity without getting too 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY about it.
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What I didn't like:
π The characters are pointedly racially diverse but that doesnβt really have any bearing on things - I'm not entirely sure if race doesn't mean anything in this universe (the same way it's a queernorm universe) or if the author just wasn't sure how those identities would play into the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Suicide
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