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Impostors
by Scott Westerfeld
Oh my gods. We are BACK in the bubbly universe of my favorite series of all time. I read in a day, and swallowed it whole. I spent the whole day completely geeking out over things most people would think is really weird (I *SCREAMED* when the main characters ate Spag-Bol).
I didn't think that I could love Scott Westerfeld or this series any more than I already did, but then he went and added a nonbinary character to the cannon and you know, just casually used they/them pronouns with no elaboration whatever.
I cried. I LOL'd. I stayed up entirely too late. It was like I was fifteen again, reading about Tally and Shay, but these new characters have depth I couldn't have wished for. I hope Tally makes an appearance in future books, but it's totally okay if she doesn't! (I feel like Andrew Simpson Smith might have been the one bone he threw us in that regard)
I loved Col. Some have said he fell flat next to Frey, but I disagree. I hope in subsequent books we get more of an idea of what's going on in his head, but I don't think he felt flat. If anyone is flat, it was Zane. RIP. At first I took issue with how quickly they fell mad for each other, but when dissected it makes sense--he was faking it at first, so he sped it along, and he was basically the first person Frey had really met outside her family, so of course her hormonal 15-yr-old brain fell hard!
Rafi fell flat for me if anyone did. I feel like her character changed a lot--and not in one direction, but back and forth. There were no indicators in the beginning scenes with her that she was at all "broken" but she's totally brain-missing at the end. And Frey went back and forth as well. She kept saying how she didn't know etiquette, or how to dance or be social, but then she also kept saying that every time Rafi was out in public at a nightclub or interacting with more than just a few close friends, it was really her there. That doesn't line up to me. This paragraph of my review is the reason for the missing 5th star.
Another thing I'd add, I usually think the opposite of most books, but this book could have, and possibly should have, been two separate books. Or at least longer. Not to add more story--it's just really jam-packed and the pace is really fast. It was hard to keep up with the timeline. If he'd dedicated as much time to Frey and Col's time spent in the wild alone as he did with Tally and David, it would have helped flesh out their relationship.
I read this on Audible. Thérèse Plummer was a spectacular narrator. You can tell she's done slam poetry before. I like her style a lot and I think it adds to the characters.
I didn't think that I could love Scott Westerfeld or this series any more than I already did, but then he went and added a nonbinary character to the cannon and you know, just casually used they/them pronouns with no elaboration whatever.
I cried. I LOL'd. I stayed up entirely too late. It was like I was fifteen again, reading about Tally and Shay, but these new characters have depth I couldn't have wished for. I hope Tally makes an appearance in future books, but it's totally okay if she doesn't! (I feel like Andrew Simpson Smith might have been the one bone he threw us in that regard)
I loved Col. Some have said he fell flat next to Frey, but I disagree. I hope in subsequent books we get more of an idea of what's going on in his head, but I don't think he felt flat. If anyone is flat, it was Zane. RIP. At first I took issue with how quickly they fell mad for each other, but when dissected it makes sense--he was faking it at first, so he sped it along, and he was basically the first person Frey had really met outside her family, so of course her hormonal 15-yr-old brain fell hard!
Rafi fell flat for me if anyone did. I feel like her character changed a lot--and not in one direction, but back and forth. There were no indicators in the beginning scenes with her that she was at all "broken" but she's totally brain-missing at the end. And Frey went back and forth as well. She kept saying how she didn't know etiquette, or how to dance or be social, but then she also kept saying that every time Rafi was out in public at a nightclub or interacting with more than just a few close friends, it was really her there. That doesn't line up to me. This paragraph of my review is the reason for the missing 5th star.
Another thing I'd add, I usually think the opposite of most books, but this book could have, and possibly should have, been two separate books. Or at least longer. Not to add more story--it's just really jam-packed and the pace is really fast. It was hard to keep up with the timeline. If he'd dedicated as much time to Frey and Col's time spent in the wild alone as he did with Tally and David, it would have helped flesh out their relationship.
I read this on Audible. Thérèse Plummer was a spectacular narrator. You can tell she's done slam poetry before. I like her style a lot and I think it adds to the characters.