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katkinney 's review for:
Defy the Stars
by Claudia Gray
This was just fantastic. What a detailed, fascinating, conflict-filled galaxy Claudia Gray has created for her characters to play in. Right from the start we’re sucked in to the action as Noemi practices as a kamikaze warrior to try to bring down a key transport ring that allowed residents of Earth (the baddies in this one) to get to her home planet of Genesis. When her friend is injured, she’s forced to seek help on an abandoned vessel, where she meets AI Abel.
What I LOVE LOVE LOVE about Claudia Gray’s writing is that she asks so many gray area questions along the way. Sure, Earth people have screwed up their planet and will doubtlessly screw up any other they’re given, but is it any better to heartlessly deny refugees shelter when you’ve got a big beautiful place to live and they’ll just die? Great questions considering our current political climate. And also the relationship between Abel and Noemi grows slowly throughout the book. It gradually raises the question of what is real and what isn’t right alongside the larger questions of what is just and not, what it means to be selfless and not, what it means to have a soul and not. Just awesome writing.
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author.
What I LOVE LOVE LOVE about Claudia Gray’s writing is that she asks so many gray area questions along the way. Sure, Earth people have screwed up their planet and will doubtlessly screw up any other they’re given, but is it any better to heartlessly deny refugees shelter when you’ve got a big beautiful place to live and they’ll just die? Great questions considering our current political climate. And also the relationship between Abel and Noemi grows slowly throughout the book. It gradually raises the question of what is real and what isn’t right alongside the larger questions of what is just and not, what it means to be selfless and not, what it means to have a soul and not. Just awesome writing.
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author.