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bookphenomena_micky 's review for:
Key Lime Sky
by Al Hess
adventurous
challenging
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Headlines:
Adorable characters
Neurodiverse MC
Sci-fi with a serving of pie
Key Lime Sky started to give me the warm fuzzies from a few chapters in. These endearing characters with Denver in the lead, stole the stage in this backwater small town. Denver was a neurodiverse, non-binary (any pronouns) bundle of speak first, think later. Their foot-in-mouth early capers had me chuckling and their self-awareness about it was just so charming. Denver was a pie blogger (sounds a great job, right) until their blog took a diversion into UFO-alien invasion territory. Denver went viral while Muddy Gap went quiet.
Denver found an ally and more in Ezra, who was quite frankly, stinking lovely. These two, their flexing to understand and support one another leapt off the page. Their dynamic grew through uncertainty, then sheer stress of being trapped in some bizarre time-warped road trip. As the plot rolled out, readers alongside the characters began to realise that an alien baddie was afoot but in the most strange format of invasion.
The plot was engaging in its strangeness, pie remained part of the menu and the town of Muddy Gap served up some good characters and the odd nasty one. Molly, hmmm she was a horrific with her walking dead axe.
The Dreamer I will stay quiet about as readers need to find out about that all by themselves but it was an interesting concept that I wholeheartedly enjoyed. I particularly appreciated that we got some wrap up after the peril ended.
This was my first Al Hess read but I've reversing quick fast to pick up some backlist because the writing and characterisation was *chefs kiss*.
Thank you Angry Robots for the review copy.
Adorable characters
Neurodiverse MC
Sci-fi with a serving of pie
Key Lime Sky started to give me the warm fuzzies from a few chapters in. These endearing characters with Denver in the lead, stole the stage in this backwater small town. Denver was a neurodiverse, non-binary (any pronouns) bundle of speak first, think later. Their foot-in-mouth early capers had me chuckling and their self-awareness about it was just so charming. Denver was a pie blogger (sounds a great job, right) until their blog took a diversion into UFO-alien invasion territory. Denver went viral while Muddy Gap went quiet.
Denver found an ally and more in Ezra, who was quite frankly, stinking lovely. These two, their flexing to understand and support one another leapt off the page. Their dynamic grew through uncertainty, then sheer stress of being trapped in some bizarre time-warped road trip. As the plot rolled out, readers alongside the characters began to realise that an alien baddie was afoot but in the most strange format of invasion.
The plot was engaging in its strangeness, pie remained part of the menu and the town of Muddy Gap served up some good characters and the odd nasty one. Molly, hmmm she was a horrific with her walking dead axe.
The Dreamer I will stay quiet about as readers need to find out about that all by themselves but it was an interesting concept that I wholeheartedly enjoyed. I particularly appreciated that we got some wrap up after the peril ended.
This was my first Al Hess read but I've reversing quick fast to pick up some backlist because the writing and characterisation was *chefs kiss*.
Thank you Angry Robots for the review copy.