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smileyghost 's review for:
Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
tl;dr: Not worth the time. Skip it and move to the next book in the series.
I love Scalzi's writing, but the ONLY added content between this book and his last (The Last Colony) is finding out 1) that Zoe trains to fight, and 2) what ended up happening when she contacted General Gau. The rest is just recycled plot from his previous book, told from the perspective of a poorly written teenaged girl. The rest of Scalzi's novels are plot- and setting-driven. This, on the other hand, struck me as a poor attempt at a character-driven story—something he's not familiar with or good at, and through the lens of a teenage girl, something he is not. Her character fluctuated between moody, sarcastic teen and all-too-accomplished near-adult which resulted in a regurgitated story told by an impressively flat main character. You're better off skipping it and moving to the next one in the series, The Human Division.
I love Scalzi's writing, but the ONLY added content between this book and his last (The Last Colony) is finding out 1) that Zoe trains to fight, and 2) what ended up happening when she contacted General Gau. The rest is just recycled plot from his previous book, told from the perspective of a poorly written teenaged girl. The rest of Scalzi's novels are plot- and setting-driven. This, on the other hand, struck me as a poor attempt at a character-driven story—something he's not familiar with or good at, and through the lens of a teenage girl, something he is not. Her character fluctuated between moody, sarcastic teen and all-too-accomplished near-adult which resulted in a regurgitated story told by an impressively flat main character. You're better off skipping it and moving to the next one in the series, The Human Division.