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dslowe 's review for:
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
I wish I liked this book more.
The world-building was good. I enjoyed the writing. There were some interesting ideas.
But, there was very little happening, or to care about, with both the story and the characters. It really felt like almost nothing happened. Maybe that was intentional for a book about slow revolution, but it didn't work for me.
The few characters that I might have cared about took far too long for me to want to care, and then disappeared in giant time jumps. I got the need for time on the scale t's used, but it felt like it was just way to hand wave the end of character's arc.
It was a lot of time/words spent laying out "cool" ideas and technologies, with on-the nose social commentary, and an emotional "shoulder shrug" at the end of 350 pages.
The world-building was good. I enjoyed the writing. There were some interesting ideas.
But, there was very little happening, or to care about, with both the story and the characters. It really felt like almost nothing happened. Maybe that was intentional for a book about slow revolution, but it didn't work for me.
The few characters that I might have cared about took far too long for me to want to care, and then disappeared in giant time jumps. I got the need for time on the scale t's used, but it felt like it was just way to hand wave the end of character's arc.
It was a lot of time/words spent laying out "cool" ideas and technologies, with on-the nose social commentary, and an emotional "shoulder shrug" at the end of 350 pages.