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jhbandcats 's review for:
Mickey7
by Edward Ashton
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really liked this book. It isn’t brilliant but it’s clever, funny, very entertaining, and it has a likable, resourceful main character.
I’d liked a trailer for the movie Mickey 17 and then learned it was based on a book, so of course I had to read it. It’s an interesting concept, having someone to do the dirty work and then just pop out a duplicate worker every time he dies. The intriging part is the Ship of Theseus idea (which I learned as My Grandfather’s Ax): If you replace bits of something a little at a time vs replacing the whole thing at once, is it still the same?
I especially enjoyed the history anecdotes interspersed within the story. Mickey gets obsessed with all the colonies that failed, given they only learn of the successful ones in school, and their ice world isn’t very inviting. There are the colonies that die out the first day because the environment and / or the flora and fauna are unwelcoming, the ones that die out because people tend to kill each other, and the one where oligarchs created multiples until the planet was populated only by hundreds of one sociopathic leader. What makes for a successful colony?
I’m looking forward to the sequel, and I’m really glad I found this author.
I’d liked a trailer for the movie Mickey 17 and then learned it was based on a book, so of course I had to read it. It’s an interesting concept, having someone to do the dirty work and then just pop out a duplicate worker every time he dies. The intriging part is the Ship of Theseus idea (which I learned as My Grandfather’s Ax): If you replace bits of something a little at a time vs replacing the whole thing at once, is it still the same?
I especially enjoyed the history anecdotes interspersed within the story. Mickey gets obsessed with all the colonies that failed, given they only learn of the successful ones in school, and their ice world isn’t very inviting. There are the colonies that die out the first day because the environment and / or the flora and fauna are unwelcoming, the ones that die out because people tend to kill each other, and the one where oligarchs created multiples until the planet was populated only by hundreds of one sociopathic leader. What makes for a successful colony?
I’m looking forward to the sequel, and I’m really glad I found this author.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma