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toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, War, and Injury/Injury detail
marsh_mall0w's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Confinement, Sexism, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Mental illness, Violence, Xenophobia, and Abortion
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Torture
wishbea's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Animal death and War
fatalisticshrug's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
You follow two stories; The evolution of an entire species on an earth-like planet and the remainder of the human race journeying through space in search of a new home. Both stories span millennia, but the concept makes it possible to still follow them closely. This is brilliant science fiction and a must read for science fiction fans!
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Murder, and War
iono's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexism and Cannibalism
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Abandonment, and Colonisation
Minor: Cursing, Genocide, and War
micheala's review against another edition
We then get a ship with a few thousand of the remaining humans centuries later, travelling through space (in stais) in the hopes of finding a new home.
The planet they do eventually arrive at was supposed to be an experiment to "speed run" evolution and create new humans from monkeys + an engineered virus. However, those monkeys died being sent to the planet, and giant senteant insects evolve instead.
Cool right? I had a few quibbles with the spider sections (they don't know what humans/earth is, and they don't know about the virus let alone how it functions, so stop talking about it in the narrative portions of their sections; and I was kinda disappointed that their society also was fundamentally sexist and pretty much a 1:1 of humans in the medial ages in terms of society)
The humans finally get onto the planet, and we get drop kicked into full on horror, specifically graphic body horror. So I noped out of a story I was otherwise enjoying at 37%
If you're cool with horror, I'm guessing this book is going to continue to play with some really interesting ideas, however as someone who cannot deal with horror, it's a DNF for me.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
cirrusfloccus's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Die anderen 50% sind Menschen auf einem Raumschiff, die versuchen eine neue Erde zu finden. Am Anfang dachte ich noch, sie werden mit den Spinnen interagieren, aber das tun sie nur in zwei Kapiteln des gesamten Buches. (Auch die Kurzbeschreibung ist so geschrieben, dass man denkt, dass die Menschen und die Spinnen tatsächlich interagieren werden.)
Autor: Ich will ein Buch über intelligente Spinnen schreiben!
Verlag: Okay, wenn du es SciFi machen kannst.
Autor: Ich hab eine Idee entwickelt, wie die Grundlage, warum die Spinnen intelligent sind, SciFi ist.
Verlag: Nein, wir brauchen mehr Raumschiffe! Und Krieg! Zwischen Menschen! Sonst ist es keine *echte* Science Fiction.
Enttäuschend.
Bei den Menschen sind es eher durchgängig dieselben Charaktere - aber dennoch ausgearbeitet, mit Persönlichkeiten. Man nimmt wirklich an ihrem Leben Teil - bei den Spinnen liest es sich, trotz Mühen, eher wie ein Bericht. (Alles andere halte ich aber auch für unmöglich, wenn man ständig Jahre springt.)
Sollte sich jemand, wie ich, für die Spinnen interessieren, würde ich das Buch immer noch empfehlen - ich würde nur dazu empfehlen, jedes zweite Kapitel zu überspringen.
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Cannibalism
Minor: Abortion and War
garrettrook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: War
Minor: Genocide
vicky3's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and War
Minor: Genocide and Religious bigotry
nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War