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maryellen's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
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? It's complicated
5.0
An excellent book! I can't wait for more!!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder
Minor: Alcohol and Blood
alexalily's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Violence, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Murder, Suicide, and Colonisation
megj23's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Murder, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicide
uranaishi's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Blood, Classism, Suicide, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Death, and Medical content
saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I received an eARC from Netgalley. The book will be out 3/7/2023.
The Mimicking of Known Successes accomplishes what it sets out to do by being a cozy sci-fi story, despite the tragic world building. Humanity now living on Jupiter after Earth has been destroyed by climate change (why Jupiter and not Mars? Well because Jupiter is cool as fuck). I liked how this discussed how humanity would react to this change and how detailed the world building was. However, the characters are lacking in personality and chemistry which made me not care about either the mystery or the romance.
TWs: climate change discussion, murder investigation.
The Mimicking of Known Successes accomplishes what it sets out to do by being a cozy sci-fi story, despite the tragic world building. Humanity now living on Jupiter after Earth has been destroyed by climate change (why Jupiter and not Mars? Well because Jupiter is cool as fuck). I liked how this discussed how humanity would react to this change and how detailed the world building was. However, the characters are lacking in personality and chemistry which made me not care about either the mystery or the romance.
TWs: climate change discussion, murder investigation.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder
purplepenning's review
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.25
What a little fascinator this is! It's a gas-lamp Holmesian mystery fantasy set on a gas giant of a planet in a cozy dystopian future. I know, but really. The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a sort of sliding-scopic story of preservation, conservation, and growth that plays out on personal, institutional, and planetary levels. There's so much to unpack in this deceptively sparse tale. Perfect for a winter's evening.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Confinement and Cursing
caseythereader's review
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Thanks to TorDotCom for the free advance copy of this book.
- I didn't know I needed a cozy mystery set on Jupiter, but now that I've read THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, it's kind of all I want in my life.
- This book is a good little whodunit, and the world it's set in is quite well-thought out and real feeling for a novella.
- I loved the tentative, slow beginning of a second chance romance between Mossa and Pleiti (did I mention this is also a sapphic story?), with each of them pleased to discover how the other has both changed and stayed the same.
- A second installment in this series has already been announced, and I can't wait to get my hands on it.
- I didn't know I needed a cozy mystery set on Jupiter, but now that I've read THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, it's kind of all I want in my life.
- This book is a good little whodunit, and the world it's set in is quite well-thought out and real feeling for a novella.
- I loved the tentative, slow beginning of a second chance romance between Mossa and Pleiti (did I mention this is also a sapphic story?), with each of them pleased to discover how the other has both changed and stayed the same.
- A second installment in this series has already been announced, and I can't wait to get my hands on it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
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