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ketutar's review against another edition
3.0
I liked this book. Because I read it in Finnish with this cover. Then I found it in a used books store, the English pocket version with the cheesy romance novel cover, and bought it, because I liked the book, and I wanted my non-Finnish speaking husband to read it, and his experience of the book was heavily influenced by the cheesy romance cover, and he found it really cheesy and nasty.
I think many YA readers would love it.
I think many YA readers would love it.
tome15's review against another edition
3.0
One would think that a mash up of Neil Gaimon and Edgar Rice Burroughs might be fun. And for a while it is. But after a while, it begins to cloy.
moncoinlecture's review
2.0
This one was a deception. I was waiting for something crazy, steampunk and dickensian but that's not what I found. Sure, there are fun parts, but at some moments, I felt that I couldn't care less about what would happen to Sophie and the others.
I had a "too much of too many things" feelings. Too many aliens, too many planets. Everything just mentioned, nothing explored in depth. So I stayed out. There was so many great ideas in that novel. I loved the big vessels traveling with all sails on from planet to planet. Quite a sight in my head. But that will be the only thing I will remember about the book.
I love strange worlds, I really do. It was just a bit too much for me and it made me feel like an outsider.
I had a "too much of too many things" feelings. Too many aliens, too many planets. Everything just mentioned, nothing explored in depth. So I stayed out. There was so many great ideas in that novel. I loved the big vessels traveling with all sails on from planet to planet. Quite a sight in my head. But that will be the only thing I will remember about the book.
I love strange worlds, I really do. It was just a bit too much for me and it made me feel like an outsider.
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