You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
rick2 's review for:
Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
So the first book in the series starts with this old guy who signs up for the space military. After signing up, his brain (consciousness) gets put in a new genetically modified 25 year old body along with a bunch of other old farts. Naturally he and all the other old people, infused with 25 year old hormones, just bang it out for like a week straight. Just an uncomfortable SciFi orgy.
How we got from weird orgy to a young adult novel in three books boggles my mind.
I didn’t like this book and I think I’m done with the series. I kept reading a couple chapters and saying “this is really bad“ and then talking myself into reading some more, hoping that it gets better. It didn’t.
I don’t know that I can adequately express how much I did not enjoy this. I don’t particularly like young adult novels. I don’t know why the author did this. Most of the criticisms I have just stem directly from the young adult orientation here: tone, flow, terrible one note unrealistic conversation, the Mary Sue-ness of the main character.
I think I’m more frustrated with this than I would otherwise be because I liked the other books despite some of those deficits being present. But because it’s young-adulty, all of these things seem magnified. It’s like they took the worst parts of the other books and emphasized them. Concentrated awfulness. Magnified Fuckery. A distillation of obnoxious tics. I want to forget.
How we got from weird orgy to a young adult novel in three books boggles my mind.
I didn’t like this book and I think I’m done with the series. I kept reading a couple chapters and saying “this is really bad“ and then talking myself into reading some more, hoping that it gets better. It didn’t.
I don’t know that I can adequately express how much I did not enjoy this. I don’t particularly like young adult novels. I don’t know why the author did this. Most of the criticisms I have just stem directly from the young adult orientation here: tone, flow, terrible one note unrealistic conversation, the Mary Sue-ness of the main character.
I think I’m more frustrated with this than I would otherwise be because I liked the other books despite some of those deficits being present. But because it’s young-adulty, all of these things seem magnified. It’s like they took the worst parts of the other books and emphasized them. Concentrated awfulness. Magnified Fuckery. A distillation of obnoxious tics. I want to forget.