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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
I consumed this book in four days, so I can't say I didn't enjoy myself. I did. Though there were times I wanted to give Dietz a good hard shake.
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-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
You do not read Hurley because you want to be put into a good mood. This is her first book bordering on satire and I would say its biggest fault is making this not clear from the beginning.
Otherwise a great example how you can use SciFi tropes to enhance point about the present
Otherwise a great example how you can use SciFi tropes to enhance point about the present
This one was a bit confusing to me because of the time distortions, but I enjoyed what I understood. Grim but optimistic would be how I characterize this one. I want to give it more stars but I was confused in a lot of places, so yeah.
What a waste of time and money !
There is nothing, nothing to hold on to from begging till the end...
I don't know where to start:
-The poor main character joining the military .. oh well here is something new.
-A boring boot camp / fresh soldier experience like 1000 other books - only this one is poorly written.
-Cardboard characters that you cannot tell apart - there are just names nothing more, nothing less. If they are less or more characters - it doesn't matter, they do not bring anything to the story.
-World building - not existing. Glimpses of something but not close enough.
- All the jumps save for the first and the last are useless. We could do better with only 2 jumps and save the time, nerves and paper to get to the "seen from a mile away" grand finale of stupidity / mambo jumbo mess.
How was this book nominated for Hugo, Locus , A.C. Clarke awards ?!?!?!
There is nothing, nothing to hold on to from begging till the end...
I don't know where to start:
-The poor main character joining the military .. oh well here is something new.
-A boring boot camp / fresh soldier experience like 1000 other books - only this one is poorly written.
-Cardboard characters that you cannot tell apart - there are just names nothing more, nothing less. If they are less or more characters - it doesn't matter, they do not bring anything to the story.
-World building - not existing. Glimpses of something but not close enough.
- All the jumps save for the first and the last are useless. We could do better with only 2 jumps and save the time, nerves and paper to get to the "seen from a mile away" grand finale of stupidity / mambo jumbo mess.
How was this book nominated for Hugo, Locus , A.C. Clarke awards ?!?!?!
I picked this up thinking it would be pulp fiction. Some Starship Troopers or Marko Kloos clone, which is just the kind of bubblegum I was looking for after A Memory Called Empire. It was not what I found at all. Yes it is very much a military Space Marine-esque disgruntled soldier doing what she's told despite her own misgivings. But it did something very unique with the genre. It's dark. It's confusing as hell at first. But it was very very good. The ending felt a wee bit rushed, sort of... like she'd ran out of energy making sense of all the other chapters. but it was good enough
Fine, but the constant confusion of the main character and the story structure that makes the reader not care for any of the secondary characters didn't work at all for me.
It’s that way with soldiers. You have the choice. None of its good, but it’s yours.
I don't really understand what the fuck just happened but it was exhilarating, thrilling and just a little heartbreaking. What a book.
Also its LGBTQ rep (which you don't really figure out until the end because the gender of Dietz, the main character, is not really mentioned but they have relationships with both genders).
I don't really understand what the fuck just happened but it was exhilarating, thrilling and just a little heartbreaking. What a book.
Also its LGBTQ rep (which you don't really figure out until the end because the gender of Dietz, the main character, is not really mentioned but they have relationships with both genders).
Spoiler
A Doppelgänger isn’t just a double, but an evil double, a terrible twin to you. I always found it funny that the doppelgänger is supposed to be the evil one, though, don’t you? Just as likely that the original is the evil one, and the doppelgänger the good. But that goes against our natural inclination to see ourselves as the heroes of our own stories, and the other as the outsider, the enemy, the one trying to take away everything we have.
3.5+ but rounded up due to Cara Gee’s awesome voice and work and for Hurley turning reality/time-travel tropes around in brutal fashion.