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A review by nuevecuervos
Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston
1.0
Oof ok, here's the other for the dnf shelf. I listened to about half of the audiobook of this, and I imagine that if I'd actually read it physically, I might have skimmed to the end. Fortunately about halfway through, I stopped and looked it up. Nope, doesn't improve.
It reminds me of a less-good Salvaged, a book I read years ago that had to do with crazy religious ship people who oppressed their womenfolk, and my only real complaint there was that the MC had the most epic good luck in running into help. Here, the same thing happens, but it's somehow more horrible; the oppression and body horror comes from other women, and the abuse is at a level at which Matilda and Potter would have a drink and be like daaammmn we got off lucky. :P but somehow our MC here is just...super okay once free of her ship.
I want to reiterate, the forced lack of body autonomy is gross, and while I understand that this is the point, the pivot from "I don't want to be someone else's incubator" and "I'm okay with that as long as I've decided that's the move" is jarring, and about where I gave up.
Side notes:
A) IDK how anyone missed the trans character; literally the second they talked about how their chromosome difference was A Thing, I guessed, and
B) the constant calorie counting while set up such that it's understandable, is so goddamn annoying, oof. IDK if that's unreasonable, but there it is
It reminds me of a less-good Salvaged, a book I read years ago that had to do with crazy religious ship people who oppressed their womenfolk, and my only real complaint there was that the MC had the most epic good luck in running into help. Here, the same thing happens, but it's somehow more horrible; the oppression and body horror comes from other women, and the abuse is at a level at which Matilda and Potter would have a drink and be like daaammmn we got off lucky. :P but somehow our MC here is just...super okay once free of her ship.
I want to reiterate, the forced lack of body autonomy is gross, and while I understand that this is the point, the pivot from "I don't want to be someone else's incubator" and "I'm okay with that as long as I've decided that's the move" is jarring, and about where I gave up.
Side notes:
A) IDK how anyone missed the trans character; literally the second they talked about how their chromosome difference was A Thing, I guessed, and
B) the constant calorie counting while set up such that it's understandable, is so goddamn annoying, oof. IDK if that's unreasonable, but there it is