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cheesy_hobbit 's review for:
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
There was so much potential. Newitz definitely has some unique and socially-relatable ideas, but this should have been three books in a trilogy rather than three parts of one novel. The three main parts are separated by significant amounts of time (100+ years each), and while there are a few characters held over from one part to the next, and the parts were all interrelated via the plot, I felt that I didn’t have enough time to know any set of characters before jumping forward in time to the next set.
I wonder if the publisher was hesitant to release a trilogy of novels, either all at once or with gaps, because the beginning did take a while to make sense of what the overall direction and plot of the story would be.
Newitz also performs some lazy dialogue work that comes across more clunky and unbelievable than meaningful and authentic, and relies almost entirely on dialogue to move a majority of the plot.
Show, don’t tell.
I wonder if the publisher was hesitant to release a trilogy of novels, either all at once or with gaps, because the beginning did take a while to make sense of what the overall direction and plot of the story would be.
Newitz also performs some lazy dialogue work that comes across more clunky and unbelievable than meaningful and authentic, and relies almost entirely on dialogue to move a majority of the plot.
Show, don’t tell.