627 reviews for:

Zoe's Tale

John Scalzi

3.73 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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 don’t understand why they tried to reboot this series as a YA book.

Whilst the ending is good and the extra depth is welcome as a fan of the universe, I really struggled to finish this one. Repeating the story of the previous book is a hard sell and the first half of the book wasn't new enough for me
adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional funny medium-paced
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

🎧 -  It was an excellent companion book to book 3. I think it would have been better numbered as 3.1 or 3.5, book 4 just feels disingenuous as it’s not really new story. It was fun following Zoe’s adventure. 
adventurous challenging emotional tense 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
adventurous hopeful lighthearted 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: Complicated
adventurous funny lighthearted sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kind of a director's cut / extended version of The Last Colony. as witty as the rest of the series. I like spending more time with Hickory and Dickory, and Scalzi does an okay job filling out Zoë's character, but retreading the events of The Last Colony doesn't add much to the universe.