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A review by katieinca
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
3.0
I do enjoy this universe, and Chambers' characters, and I liked this book, but not as well as the previous two. It's less story, more character-study-with-meditation-on-some-themes than her other two books, or than the cover might lead you to believe. Some things happen, but they aren't always... the point. I don't hate that, but I don't love it. If you hate it, this book will bother you.
I don't have a problem with five POV characters - that can be fun. But if four of the five interact with at least one of the others, then the remaining one feels like an aside.
I thought it was an interesting choice the way she'd end a character right before what might have been an interesting scene, but one that you could probably predict about how it was going to go, and then pick up way later, and you can just assume it probably went about he way you'd expect. I'm still not sure whether that was an efficiency that really worked for her, or whether it left things feeling thin.
I don't have a problem with five POV characters - that can be fun. But if four of the five interact with at least one of the others, then the remaining one feels like an aside.
I thought it was an interesting choice the way she'd end a character right before what might have been an interesting scene, but one that you could probably predict about how it was going to go, and then pick up way later, and you can just assume it probably went about he way you'd expect. I'm still not sure whether that was an efficiency that really worked for her, or whether it left things feeling thin.