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A review by bottomofthebookshelf
Goldilocks by L.R. Lam
3.0
*Thank you to Netgalley and Orbit Books for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review*
This book follows a crew of women as they steal a spaceship to embark on a voyage to another galaxy in order to save mankind after the earth has been ravaged by humanity. The concept of this book intrigued me and I could definitely see some parallels to The Martian as I was reading it at the same time as this. Unfortunately though, the first 75% of this book almost put me in a reading slump. I normally read books pretty fast, but it took me almost a month to get through this one. I’m not sure exactly why I didn’t want to keep reading it, but it just wasn’t the exciting read I was hoping for. The pacing seemed off and the twists that were thrown in didn’t improve the story for me. I also didn’t really like any of the characters all that much, especially our protagonist. The last quarter of the book got a bit more interesting, however, so I bumped my rating up to 3 stars. Overall, I don’t really recommend this book as there are so many other great science fiction books out there with a similar premise.
This book follows a crew of women as they steal a spaceship to embark on a voyage to another galaxy in order to save mankind after the earth has been ravaged by humanity. The concept of this book intrigued me and I could definitely see some parallels to The Martian as I was reading it at the same time as this. Unfortunately though, the first 75% of this book almost put me in a reading slump. I normally read books pretty fast, but it took me almost a month to get through this one. I’m not sure exactly why I didn’t want to keep reading it, but it just wasn’t the exciting read I was hoping for. The pacing seemed off and the twists that were thrown in didn’t improve the story for me. I also didn’t really like any of the characters all that much, especially our protagonist. The last quarter of the book got a bit more interesting, however, so I bumped my rating up to 3 stars. Overall, I don’t really recommend this book as there are so many other great science fiction books out there with a similar premise.