Reviews

The Death of Sleep by Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye

hissingpotatoes's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed Lunzie's unusual timeline circumstances and how she pushes through and handles those major hurdles. Like Sassinak, she's a strong person who takes the hits but relies on her skills and brains to survive. Her interactions with the minor characters are entertaining and ground the constantly changing location in the well-built world of this space adventure. The pacing is very different from most other books, with sudden time skips and occasional glossing over of the emotional impact events have; but this is more an observation than a criticism, since it was noticeable but didn't really limit my enjoyment of the book. I continue to love how easy romantic relationships are in the series, with people actually communicating instead of devolving into petty jealousy and assumptions. I really appreciate the efforts the series goes through to tackle the issue of bias/racism, although it's not perfect.

serena_dawn's review against another edition

2.0

I usually don't dislike Anne McCaffrey's books so much, but, oh boy, the story was there, somewhere in the shadows cast between the lines of text. This really could of been a awesome series, the potential was there, waiting to be found; I wish it could have shone through. It didn't, it really, really killed this set of novels for me, that I couldn't like any of them - and I tried too.

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bookcrazylady45's review against another edition

4.0

Read this one out of order...according to site numbering but it is Lunzie's story which comes before Sassinak's story. Both books end with Lunzie 150 and Sassinak Commander of the ship that rescues her from Ireta. I really enjoyed this one...Lunzie's life is well put together and written. I get queasy when the blurb at the back off a book starts off with a 12 year old girl slave being 'used' or 'abused', which is on back of Sassinak. So I started the series with one that would go down easier. Of course I started with Dinosaur Planet and then Survivors but according to my personal numbers on inside covers from back in the 80s, The Death of Sleep is book 1, Dinosaur Planet 1 1/2, Survivors 2, Sassinak 3 and Generation Warriors 4. This is another really good Anne McCaffrey series.

rhodered's review

2.0

When this series first came out in 1990, it was very important to me as a young woman looking for strong female role models of a sort in the fiction I read. It does not stand up to re-reading pretty much in any way. Which is too bad, because the idea behind it --how to cope when you've been revived from inadvertant and unplanned 'cold sleep' missing decades, is a great one. As is 'have MD and spacesuit, will travel'. But this feels slow, occasionally disjointed, slightly bigoted (one of the villians is an oversized lesbian thug), and dull. The plot plods along relying on explosions and overt bad guys for drama instead of the drama already inherant in the situation.

thebookishbabbler's review

2.5

This book wasn't terrible but it certainly wast special. I felt like I had read this story a thousand times before. It wasn't anything special and I wouldn't tell anyone to read it. It's was just meh, and boring.