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halfspell 's review for:
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
This book has potential but it suffers from a weird focus on things that don’t seem relevant. The most interesting thing I felt were the Tree and Peregrine but they were sort of just glossed over. They’re supposed to be something like the spirits of nature and science and in the end of the book they “get together” romantically. And it’s a good thing. But it’s never said why this was a good thing beyond “everybody gets magic now! Or science since it’s the same!”
The teachers of magic and the teachers of science seem to be more interesting than the main characters, to be honest, but we never get anything on them beyond the fact that they’re jerks or afraid.
A lot of this book seems to focus on the disaster of climate change but won’t go into it beyond “its bad” choosing to focus on how the main characters have sex or pine for one another or do the old fanfic trope of “I love them but they must not like me”.
This book is like a house with a good frame work but no walls yet. And instead of putting up walls, they skipped to wallpaper. It’s got potential, but needs some work.
The teachers of magic and the teachers of science seem to be more interesting than the main characters, to be honest, but we never get anything on them beyond the fact that they’re jerks or afraid.
A lot of this book seems to focus on the disaster of climate change but won’t go into it beyond “its bad” choosing to focus on how the main characters have sex or pine for one another or do the old fanfic trope of “I love them but they must not like me”.
This book is like a house with a good frame work but no walls yet. And instead of putting up walls, they skipped to wallpaper. It’s got potential, but needs some work.