A review by elements_of_wednesday
Icebreaker by Lian Tanner

2.0

Well to be honest I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. I originally picked it up because I thought it was going to be about the Titanic because, well, there's a ship that looks an awful lot like the Titanic on the cover along with an iceberg that it's about to hit. Sadly, this was not a book about the Titanic at all, but some weird futuristic, but also sometimes seems old-fashioned, society that lives on a boat. There's three clans, the cooks, the officers, and the engineers, and I think it's strange that those are the only three occupations on this boat. I mean do they not have housekeepers or just plain old passengers? Anyway these people have lived on their ship their entire lives, which is strange, how could they have never seen land? There's this one girl who doesn't have a clan and is known as The Nothing Girl. Up to this point I was like okay so this book is different and not what I was expecting but it still might be good, and then came the talking rats. There's two rats that are the girl's friends and they are a little odd oh and also the strange boy they pick up? He's there because he was taught that machines are evil.











*SPOILER ALERT*
Okay so the boy, Fin, is there to destroy the sleeping captain right? Well, I thought he gave this up way too fast. If you take into account that he has been brainwashed his entire life, which can lead to some really bad mental conditions, it makes no sense that he would give up this mindset so easily even after seeing the machines himself.