tashasbookishcorner 's review for:

Frontier by Grace Curtis

3.75

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This has a slightly strange structure to it. The first part is a series of vignettes/short stories as the main character (whose name we don't discover until late in the book) meets various people in this climate change ravaged and mostly abandoned earth. Sometimes the story is from the MC's pov and sometimes from the side characters. When she gets to her destination it becomes a more straightforward story. We also get little interludes of various media that hint at the MC's backstory and why they, being from space, are here on Earth which I enjoyed (we do actually get the full story in the last bit of the book as well).

This has quite a wild west vibe to it that I enjoyed. It's a bit Fallout I would say as well, only not so zany. The worldbuilding was interesting, finding out what the remnants of society have built from what's left and how their society is structured. 

Whilst I don't mind the unconventinial plot structure, there's something's that never get explained that annoyed me. I understood that more so in the short stories but not in the straightforward plot. There's a pretty major bit that never gets explained

how exactly did she survive getting shot because the way it was described sounded pretty fatal given the lack of medical tech

Overall, I think some people will really like this and for others it just won't be their cup of tea.