1.52k reviews for:

Shards of Earth

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.1 AVERAGE

mpperry's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

tobna's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

curious_magpie8's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

randomprogrammer's review against another edition

4.0

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action, action, action. a good book, but imo quite different from Children of Time. not as cerebral, although more politics and spy stuff

barf_mobile's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 49%

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Honestly I probably would have finished it if my earbuds didn't keep listening without being in my ears, which isn't the book's fault at all. More or less just the straw breaking the camels back because the architect stuff was interesting and all that but I didn't really have enough of a hook to feel like I wanted to finish the series anyway.

cinnamonowl's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

joosep's review against another edition

3.0

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Space adventure with pretty classic story beats for a crew with spaceship, but with enough new things to make it stand out. Liked the idea of Architects. The crew was colorful enough to keep reading about their next challenges.

ryan_gainey's review against another edition

5.0

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A fantastic found-family scifi novel. Reminiscent of The Expanse, Firefly and Becky Chamber’s Wayfarers series.

Olli might just be my all-time favorite scifi character concept.

ladypants's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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So fun and great characters. I laughed a lot even though it gets heavy sometimes 

jabioks55's review against another edition

4.0

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Good! Had some twists and turns I didn't see coming, liked the ending of this one better than "the children of time"