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mal_eficent's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
While I enjoyed Lunzie as a character, this felt like lot a lot of repetition – across the series and in the actual book.
The general gist of Lunzie's life is already described in Sassinak, which ruined any suspense and made it feel like I was waiting forever to get to the actual meat of the story; the ending is essentially a shorter perspective of Dinosaur Planet, to the point it almost felt like we were getting a diarised version of events in the last few pages; and poor Lunzie goes through the same catastrophe too many times for it to be dramatic.
My favourite parts were the moments that we hadn't already read in previous books – seeing what life was like on the lower decks of an exploration spaceship, and military-corporate espionage – but these made up so little of the latter part of the book I don't think I'd recommend this if you've read any of the earlier books in this world.
I will give props to Jody Lynn Nye, whose writing fit in with the previous book very well. Though her characterisation is slightly different to Moon's Lunzie it's not enough to make me doubt they could be the same character.
The general gist of Lunzie's life is already described in Sassinak, which ruined any suspense and made it feel like I was waiting forever to get to the actual meat of the story; the ending is essentially a shorter perspective of Dinosaur Planet, to the point it almost felt like we were getting a diarised version of events in the last few pages; and poor Lunzie goes through the same catastrophe too many times for it to be dramatic.
My favourite parts were the moments that we hadn't already read in previous books – seeing what life was like on the lower decks of an exploration spaceship, and military-corporate espionage – but these made up so little of the latter part of the book I don't think I'd recommend this if you've read any of the earlier books in this world.
I will give props to Jody Lynn Nye, whose writing fit in with the previous book very well. Though her characterisation is slightly different to Moon's Lunzie it's not enough to make me doubt they could be the same character.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Xenophobia
Moderate: Violence and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Trafficking
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