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slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
Science Fiction
Scribd Audio
18+
Destry and her mount, which is a mouse, are part of a team that was created, so owned by their company, to protect the planet's environment so the company can 'sell' plots of land to 'humans'. They go to investigate a collapse in a lava tube and find a city under the volcano whose inhabitants were supposed to have died after their job was over.
Ignoring that the characters who were hundreds of years old and some were supposed to be intelligent, acted like whiny pre-teens, this book started off great. The company that terraformed this planet are ruthless with their 'robot/DNA/modified' workers and will do whatever it takes to protect their investment, including mass murder.
Then this book jumped a few centuries and was no longer interesting, then it jumped again and fell straight down the gutter. I sped up the audio because I wanted to get it done and over with.
The characters are not 'human' some look human, some look like animals, and some are a jumble, but they are considered 'people' because they can think and have living tissue, then there are some that were never really explained if they were real, created as animals, or what they actually were. Were they really birds or created to look like birds and have mechanical parts?
I did listen to the audio version and while I liked the narrator, the sound effects were irritating. I almost DNF-ed it when I found this out. It's a gimmick that can ruin and take a star away from a story.
There is violence and sexual situations with beings who are not of the same species so it's not suitable for readers under eighteen.
The first part of the book is the only reason I can give this...
2 Stars
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery, Colonisation, Genocide, and Hate crime
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