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sitnstew's review against another edition
4.0
Farseed is one of those books that took me a while to start enjoying. I won the book through a Goodreads giveaway initially had the thought that it would be terrible because it was another a teen book. And I'll be honest, it is very obviously a book directed a teens. The reading comprehension level is definitely not any higher than that - in fact, my 6 year old could read it and understand what is going on for the most part. However, it is also a very good book and makes up for the lack of depth by creating an interesting story and setting.
Farseed is the 2nd book in a series - a fact that I didn't discover until halfway through. I don't see any reason why this book couldn't stand alone as I never once felt confused or felt that I was lacking any back story. Pamela Sargent did a god job of creating a complete story despite being part of a series.
I think what ended up allowing me to give this book 4 stars is that the overall concept is delicious - humans sent a ship into the universe with progeny in order to "seed" other habitable worlds. Pretty awesome backstory.
Overall I thought it was a good book for what it was and teens especially would gobble it up!
Farseed is the 2nd book in a series - a fact that I didn't discover until halfway through. I don't see any reason why this book couldn't stand alone as I never once felt confused or felt that I was lacking any back story. Pamela Sargent did a god job of creating a complete story despite being part of a series.
I think what ended up allowing me to give this book 4 stars is that the overall concept is delicious - humans sent a ship into the universe with progeny in order to "seed" other habitable worlds. Pretty awesome backstory.
Overall I thought it was a good book for what it was and teens especially would gobble it up!
mysticalbluerose's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
5.0
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
3.0
book 2 in the seed trilogy. An interesting dark ya set about 20 years after some people are dropped off on a colony planet. Mostly it is about the conflict between a splinter group that is slowly dying out and the settled group which is needing to be unsettled some. There could be a lot more here and it could have been less obviously written for YA - but the characters are good. I especially like having the characters really see the other group as alien. More like a 3.5 out of 5.
kevinhendricks's review against another edition
2.0
The long-awaited 2007 sequel to the 1983 novel Earthseed. Meh. It devolved into an odd drama that lacked a real protagonist.
icameheretoread's review against another edition
3.0
I had a hard time with this one. Perhaps I should not have picked it up just after reading Earthseed?
This one seemed so bogged down in politics, and I finished the book still unsure of what Ho's motivations were. I just did not get him or why anyone would follow him. I cheered for Nuy, but many of her successes seemed based on luck. I also found myself disliking most of the residents of the main settlement and, in my mind, saw the settlement people vs the river people as class warfare that was so unbalanced, there could only be one ending.
My library does not own the third one, so I am going to wait for awhile and see if I can pick it up somewhere, but I want to allow some time to pass before jumping back in and see if that makes a difference.
Note: I did love this cover!
This one seemed so bogged down in politics, and I finished the book still unsure of what Ho's motivations were. I just did not get him or why anyone would follow him. I cheered for Nuy, but many of her successes seemed based on luck. I also found myself disliking most of the residents of the main settlement and, in my mind, saw the settlement people vs the river people as class warfare that was so unbalanced, there could only be one ending.
My library does not own the third one, so I am going to wait for awhile and see if I can pick it up somewhere, but I want to allow some time to pass before jumping back in and see if that makes a difference.
Note: I did love this cover!
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