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A review by mollymortensen
Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon by Richard Roberts
1.0
Spider has a job for the Inscrutable Machine, go to Jupiter.
They discover a red tentacled goat mind controlling alien (Yes, you read that right) is the reason the conquerors came to this solar system.
Facing both alien species is two groups of humans living on the moons of Jupiter. One who is living in a dystopian society under the rule of automatons.
Oh and there's a lady who says she speaks to yet another alien species.
(Confused yet? Yeah, me too.)
There is a "typo" in the title. She blows up A moon (by Jupiter) not THE moon.
The Good:
The first 20% was just as good as the first book and I had high expectations for this sequel!
The best part of the first book was the imagination and there was certainly creativity in the space cultures and alien species.
The Bad:
The remaining 80% felt nothing like the first book. Once our three main characters went to space it went all downhill.
It was confusing with so many different aliens and factions. I had to flip back a couple times to figure out who was who.
I liked the light and fun first book, but the sequel was much darker, (with creepy aliens) and there was little if any humor.
Penny. She had such cool inventions, but here she mostly fixes stuff and creates evil bio-alien things.
It felt like Remmy was supposed to be the main character in this dystopian and at first she was interesting character, but then I couldn't stand the little brat.
At one point Penny mentioned that she forgot her two friends were there.. (Yeah I did too!) They were such good characters in the first book, why are they now in the background?
Verdict:
I did read the whole thing without skimming and it wasn't AS bad as I made it sound, but it was still a big let down after the first one.
Note: Chapter 29 is when they return from space for anyone interested in skipping that part. (Which I actually recommend.)
Point of View: First Person (Penny)
Predictability: 2 out of 5 (Where 1 is totally unpredictable and 5 is I knew what was going to happen way ahead of time.)
Source: KindleUnlimited
Errors: low (26 that I highlighted on my Kindle)
They discover a red tentacled goat mind controlling alien (Yes, you read that right) is the reason the conquerors came to this solar system.
Facing both alien species is two groups of humans living on the moons of Jupiter. One who is living in a dystopian society under the rule of automatons.
Oh and there's a lady who says she speaks to yet another alien species.
(Confused yet? Yeah, me too.)
There is a "typo" in the title. She blows up A moon (by Jupiter) not THE moon.
The Good:
The first 20% was just as good as the first book and I had high expectations for this sequel!
The best part of the first book was the imagination and there was certainly creativity in the space cultures and alien species.
The Bad:
The remaining 80% felt nothing like the first book. Once our three main characters went to space it went all downhill.
It was confusing with so many different aliens and factions. I had to flip back a couple times to figure out who was who.
I liked the light and fun first book, but the sequel was much darker, (with creepy aliens) and there was little if any humor.
Penny. She had such cool inventions, but here she mostly fixes stuff and creates evil bio-alien things.
It felt like Remmy was supposed to be the main character in this dystopian and at first she was interesting character, but then I couldn't stand the little brat.
At one point Penny mentioned that she forgot her two friends were there.. (Yeah I did too!) They were such good characters in the first book, why are they now in the background?
Verdict:
I did read the whole thing without skimming and it wasn't AS bad as I made it sound, but it was still a big let down after the first one.
Note: Chapter 29 is when they return from space for anyone interested in skipping that part. (Which I actually recommend.)
Point of View: First Person (Penny)
Predictability: 2 out of 5 (Where 1 is totally unpredictable and 5 is I knew what was going to happen way ahead of time.)
Source: KindleUnlimited
Errors: low (26 that I highlighted on my Kindle)