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A review by alina_leonova
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
Unfortunately, this book turned out to be not for me.
I gave up at about 10%, after reading three chapters. Those chapters told the backstory of three different characters, and the fourth chapter was going to be about yet another character. As far as I understood from other reviews, there are six main characters and six points of view explored in the book.
I think it is really hard to make a book with that many POV characters work, especially if you start with their background. Even if you start with them doing something exciting, it's still tricky, as the reader doesn't have an emotional connection to any of them yet and doesn't have time to form it before switching to other characters.
As it was, the book was going into mundane and mildly interesting details about each character's life, but the plot wasn't moving along and nothing was happening. Because I didn't know those characters yet, I didn't really care about their previous lives or how they got into the program or what they were worried about. It could have worked for me (and that's just a personal preference) if I saw them in some action first, liked them and got attached to them, and those details were filled later on when I was already interested in them or wanted to understand them better.
Please take all of that with a grain of salt as I read only a small part of the book, and this is just my subjective perception that can be completely different from yours. There are lots of great reviews, so the book definitely works for some readers. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me, but it might for you.
Check out my blog about sci-fi by women and non-binary authors for book reviews, lists, interviews, short stories and more.
I gave up at about 10%, after reading three chapters. Those chapters told the backstory of three different characters, and the fourth chapter was going to be about yet another character. As far as I understood from other reviews, there are six main characters and six points of view explored in the book.
I think it is really hard to make a book with that many POV characters work, especially if you start with their background. Even if you start with them doing something exciting, it's still tricky, as the reader doesn't have an emotional connection to any of them yet and doesn't have time to form it before switching to other characters.
As it was, the book was going into mundane and mildly interesting details about each character's life, but the plot wasn't moving along and nothing was happening. Because I didn't know those characters yet, I didn't really care about their previous lives or how they got into the program or what they were worried about. It could have worked for me (and that's just a personal preference) if I saw them in some action first, liked them and got attached to them, and those details were filled later on when I was already interested in them or wanted to understand them better.
Please take all of that with a grain of salt as I read only a small part of the book, and this is just my subjective perception that can be completely different from yours. There are lots of great reviews, so the book definitely works for some readers. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me, but it might for you.
Check out my blog about sci-fi by women and non-binary authors for book reviews, lists, interviews, short stories and more.