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A review by kitvaria_sarene
Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell
4.0
Stars and Bones by Garteh L. Powell is a scifi novel I found quite gripping, despite a few eyebrow rising moments.
To me it felt mostly like a space opera, with a few hard science pieces added, and a lot of glossed over other science bits. I am by no way a fan of hard science, as in I will read, but not undrstand it, but even I noticed wuite some "it works, because it works" kind of moments.
The same goes for some of the characters, who are supposedly intelligent, but don't notice the biggest clues, unless pinted out. This helps explaining it to the reader, but come on! If I spotted it from 3 miles away, I expect a professional to think of it before me.
Aside from these, I really enjoyed both the setting and the whole idea behind were humanity has ended up. It was intriguing and fresh and easily hooked me.
The tone and voice of both the book itself and the POV characters also worked very well for me, so even though I had some sighs along the way, i really enjoed this book a lot overall.
To me it felt mostly like a space opera, with a few hard science pieces added, and a lot of glossed over other science bits. I am by no way a fan of hard science, as in I will read, but not undrstand it, but even I noticed wuite some "it works, because it works" kind of moments.
The same goes for some of the characters, who are supposedly intelligent, but don't notice the biggest clues, unless pinted out. This helps explaining it to the reader, but come on! If I spotted it from 3 miles away, I expect a professional to think of it before me.
Aside from these, I really enjoyed both the setting and the whole idea behind were humanity has ended up. It was intriguing and fresh and easily hooked me.
The tone and voice of both the book itself and the POV characters also worked very well for me, so even though I had some sighs along the way, i really enjoed this book a lot overall.