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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Absolutely lovely! The different timelines, the mystery, the relationships and the characters, all amazing, and the descriptions of the ship were so cool
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was surprised I liked this book as much as I did since it's 1) a mystery and 2) I didn't really love the other Kitsasei book I tried. But I thought Kitsasei creates such an interesting and plausible near future where humanity flings a group of people into space as the sociopolitical situation on earth becomes more and more unstable (think natural disasters, rising racial violence, and the threat of World War III). I liked the theme of getting people to view the same reality in order to progress, and of cutting ties to the past in order to move forward together. I think having the dual timelines (the murder investigation on the ship and the slow reveal of Asuka's background and her experience on a struggling earth were really well-balanced, with each section just working together to hammer in that first theme of seeing from another person's point of view (sometimes literally) and creating a really moving arc for the main character.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Death of parent
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Going into reading The Deep Sky, I did not think that I would enjoy a sci-fi thriller; I’m happy to say that I was incorrect.
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei hooked me from start to finish, and I had to keep reading to get the answers to all of my questions. I enjoyed that the answers weren’t obvious, and that kept me intrigued throughout. I also really loved Asuka’s character, and she felt like a friend as I read.
My biggest critique - THE ENDING?! I need more resolution than that!
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei hooked me from start to finish, and I had to keep reading to get the answers to all of my questions. I enjoyed that the answers weren’t obvious, and that kept me intrigued throughout. I also really loved Asuka’s character, and she felt like a friend as I read.
My biggest critique - THE ENDING?! I need more resolution than that!
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Book club read for March 🥰
This book was fantastic. I really enjoyed the back and forth between Earth and Asuka life before and on the Phoenix. I didn't know what was going to happen chapter by chapter, and truly enjoyed this.
I found that all the characters, even minor characters were fleshed out. I switched from audio to physical back and forth and found that I liked physical more, the audio I kept getting confused on what was going on exactly.
Overall, a great experience. Will be reading Yume's next book.
This book was fantastic. I really enjoyed the back and forth between Earth and Asuka life before and on the Phoenix. I didn't know what was going to happen chapter by chapter, and truly enjoyed this.
I found that all the characters, even minor characters were fleshed out. I switched from audio to physical back and forth and found that I liked physical more, the audio I kept getting confused on what was going on exactly.
Overall, a great experience. Will be reading Yume's next book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Vomit
Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic
adventurous
challenging
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A sci-fi murder mystery thriller with nary a cis-het man in sight. If you enjoyed my Devon Island Mars Colony series, you’re going to love this one.
adventurous
mysterious
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
The writing feels appropriate for a young adult reader. The dialog amounts to common conversions of people in real life. None of it matters beyond basic character development. Every plot relevant science fiction aspect of this story is mindbogglingly bad:
The intent is to make the entire crew pregnant simultaneously with no control of their future, so apparently this is a ship that was made with more than double the carrying capacity of the crew it was sent with? To make it worse, this is in a universe where stasis chambers exist.
Without stasis technology, you could imagine using carefully controlled natural reproduction to maintain a crew for the duration of a long journey. What the author portrays is just compounding nonsense.
The ship has two complete main engine packages, one at each end, because rather than simply turning the ship around and using the same engines used to decelerate as were used to accelerate there's an entirely separate set of engines for this.
Since the ship is not the sort that can be reoriented, when it's thrown off course the plan is to detach a set of main engines and remount them to the side of the ship to make a course correction.
The ship literally has a HAL type computer prepared to fight with the crew, and defend it's self from being deactivated with force. There are no designed in means of overriding this computer, no manual overrides on anything. Despite the crew having extreme 3D printing capabilities and years of time in space no one ever goes back and fixes any of this.
Every member of the crew had an augmented reality system implanted in their skulls capable of replacing everything they see and hear with something entirely else. The a fore mentioned HAL type computer has the ability to control this, effectively allowing this computer to forcibly override the realities of any of the crew, any time it wants to.
I think I mostly finished this out of disbelief. Or perhaps because my mind wandered a lot imagining a potentially very good story. This is not that story.
Spoiler
Somehow the crew of the ship is expecting to reach another star system, with an inhabitable planet, where they'll be able to establish a thriving colony, all over the duration of a single person's natural life span using some kind of conventional propulsion.The intent is to make the entire crew pregnant simultaneously with no control of their future, so apparently this is a ship that was made with more than double the carrying capacity of the crew it was sent with? To make it worse, this is in a universe where stasis chambers exist.
Without stasis technology, you could imagine using carefully controlled natural reproduction to maintain a crew for the duration of a long journey. What the author portrays is just compounding nonsense.
The ship has two complete main engine packages, one at each end, because rather than simply turning the ship around and using the same engines used to decelerate as were used to accelerate there's an entirely separate set of engines for this.
Since the ship is not the sort that can be reoriented, when it's thrown off course the plan is to detach a set of main engines and remount them to the side of the ship to make a course correction.
The ship literally has a HAL type computer prepared to fight with the crew, and defend it's self from being deactivated with force. There are no designed in means of overriding this computer, no manual overrides on anything. Despite the crew having extreme 3D printing capabilities and years of time in space no one ever goes back and fixes any of this.
Every member of the crew had an augmented reality system implanted in their skulls capable of replacing everything they see and hear with something entirely else. The a fore mentioned HAL type computer has the ability to control this, effectively allowing this computer to forcibly override the realities of any of the crew, any time it wants to.
I think I mostly finished this out of disbelief. Or perhaps because my mind wandered a lot imagining a potentially very good story. This is not that story.