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A review by dreamersmind
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
This book took me forever to read. It started out very slow and I was worried I wouldn’t like it as much as the first 2 books of the series but it rounded out very nicely in the end and I was left with a familiar warm cozy feeling that I had in the other books.
Things I liked in this book:
1. Getting to see more world building and getting to understand fleet society
2. Each character brought interesting parts to the story to allow the reader to get a fuller picture of the fleet.
Things I didn’t like in this book:
1. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and it took a while to get my bearings and stop confusing characters with each other.
2. The first half of the book was extremely slow paced.
“Our species doesn’t operate by reality. It operates by stories. Cities are a story. Money is a story. Space was a story, once. A king tells us a story about who we are and why were great, and that story is enough to make us go kill people who tell a different story or maybe the people kill the King, because they don’t like his story, and have begun to tell themselves a different one. When our planet started dying our species was so caught up in stories. We had thousands of stories about ourselves —that’s still true, don’t forget that for a minute— but not enough of us were looking at the reality of things. Once reality caught up with us and we started changing her stories to acknowledge it, It was too late.”
Things I liked in this book:
1. Getting to see more world building and getting to understand fleet society
2. Each character brought interesting parts to the story to allow the reader to get a fuller picture of the fleet.
Things I didn’t like in this book:
1. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and it took a while to get my bearings and stop confusing characters with each other.
2. The first half of the book was extremely slow paced.
“Our species doesn’t operate by reality. It operates by stories. Cities are a story. Money is a story. Space was a story, once. A king tells us a story about who we are and why were great, and that story is enough to make us go kill people who tell a different story or maybe the people kill the King, because they don’t like his story, and have begun to tell themselves a different one. When our planet started dying our species was so caught up in stories. We had thousands of stories about ourselves —that’s still true, don’t forget that for a minute— but not enough of us were looking at the reality of things. Once reality caught up with us and we started changing her stories to acknowledge it, It was too late.”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Xenophobia