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adventurous
dark
slow-paced
2.0
This was messy and disjointed to me. There was way too many characters, most of whom were only introduced by name and with no physical description so they all just sorta ended up being blobs in my head. Schuler tried to use the pure amount of the characters as a way to show how dangerous/deadly the planets they were taken to were but that led to more than often not empty feeling deaths. I also thought the more main characters would change their attitudes/morals pretty quickly so once again none of them stood out from each other.
The action parts - which was done often in the narrative - were quite hard to follow. This was especially prevalent in the last few chapters where I basically felt like I was on a damn rollercoaster with no seatbelt (and i hate rollercoasters).
There was some good philosophical questions asked in this (when food becomes scarce, how quickly will we turn on each other? Is it worth it to go back to Earth when it will end up taking more lives/resources than what you started out with?). I liked Kiki and Row’s adolescent adoring romance. It had a complex father/son relationship. But ultimately this all fell flat to me. Maybe if there wasn’t so much needless death that accomplished little or if the heroes hadn’t gotten their ‘happy ending’, I would have liked it better.
I believe I won this book in a storygraph giveaway. All opinions are mine and my mine own.
The action parts - which was done often in the narrative - were quite hard to follow. This was especially prevalent in the last few chapters where I basically felt like I was on a damn rollercoaster with no seatbelt (and i hate rollercoasters).
There was some good philosophical questions asked in this (when food becomes scarce, how quickly will we turn on each other? Is it worth it to go back to Earth when it will end up taking more lives/resources than what you started out with?). I liked Kiki and Row’s adolescent adoring romance. It had a complex father/son relationship. But ultimately this all fell flat to me. Maybe if there wasn’t so much needless death that accomplished little or if the heroes hadn’t gotten their ‘happy ending’, I would have liked it better.
I believe I won this book in a storygraph giveaway. All opinions are mine and my mine own.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Death
Minor: Blood, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
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