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Gearbreakers

Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.88 AVERAGE

veeeeuh's review

4.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

goddd i'm so INSANE! why didn't i read this sooner?

sky899's review

3.75

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

parasite_z's review

DNF at 25% -- audiobook narrator repulsed me too much to continue. I might pick back up at a later point, but I just keep having sensory issues, being reminded of the too-much-spit-in-mouth-narrator.

millydrisco's review

3.75

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

tinyjude's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Mecha fights with swords. Slow burn sapphics. And found family. All a good mix to make the perfect recipe for a book up on my line. I enjoyed it, even though after waiting so much to read it and hearing such good things about it, my expectations were on the sky and it didn't quite reach them. But that's fine. The book was entertaining and cool, I liked the characters and the plot. We will see if the sequel lives up to the hype of the first one.

Content Warnings

daddy_gringa's review against another edition

2.0

I was pretty excited for this book... Until I started reading it. I felt the world and character building was lackluster at best. The 'Evil Empire' was just supremely bad and no other descriptions of how it worked really were given. And their evil actions don't make any sense whatsoever; if one settlement fails to give the entire quota just kill them all. Why? Who will fill that quota now?
And the characters, oh the characters. I found myself being confused about which character I was seeing the world through because their motivations and internal monologue are very similar. Their sidekicks were forgettable at best, and more often than not annoying.
But above all, I could not ever get immersed in the book because the it seemed the book was unsure of its identity: was is a YA book or one for an older audience? The story, the plot, and the characters all have the little depth that a young YA book has, because kids, but then the detailed descriptions of slicing someone's neck open and watching them try to mouth something as they slowly bleed out and die did not seem appropriate for the age group that the story, as disappointing as it was, was written for.
I will not be reading any more of this series.
Omg don't get me started on the Mechas. Just make tanks or warplanes! Human bodies are kinda terrible and making giant metal ones with so many failure points is stupid.
Ugh, I wish I had the motivation to get up and go to my computer to write a better review because I have so much more I want to say but honestly, this review from my thumbs via my phone is all it's getting.

Edit: ok, I was pretty harsh in my review. I feel bad and I hope the author doesn't read it because she should be proud of writing it if for no other reason than she's done something most of us will never do. And that's awesome.

percybarb's review

2.5

adventurous hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Enjoyable but very naive, so great as a younger YA novel i guess! So by YA it wouod be 4 stars but personally was just not that good i dunno... great for the lesbians though!