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whoevencaresthen's review against another edition
4.0
Wild ride! Can't wait for the next volume in 2024.
kmarkham's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book. I think I loved it even more than the first.
rageofachilles's review against another edition
4.0
I liked the first book a bit better, but this novel introduces a new, interesting wrinkle with more colonists coming from Earth—allowing the reader to learn what happens with Burke’s version of the home-world, apparently Florida was taken over by cloned dinosaurs? Definitely makes me want to read more about that earth. It’s a shame that this is just a duology.
ginjafox's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
5.0
elanajell's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.5
theangrystackrat's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- 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
3.0
caithorton's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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
4.0
mattbgold's review against another edition
3.0
Decent sci-fi about inter-species conflict on an alien world and finding intelligence in unexpected places. I felt the weakest chapters of the first book, Semiosis, were those written from the non-human perspective, which were thankfully few. Unfortunately more than half of this book is from alien perspectives and these sections still feel kind of stunted and robotic - it also kills the mystery a bit by not leaving the internal workings of the alien minds to the imagination. Not a bad series overall.
cloudcrow's review against another edition
2.0
Nice ideas but clumsy and very unconvincing characters. At first it seemed ok because some characters were not humans so one can imagine their train of thought would be different but in the end it was true for everyone - nothing that they thought or said to each other sounded realistic or normal.