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A review by february_friday
Moon Dust in My Hairnet by J.R. Creaden
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
First of all, thank you so much to Netgalley and Mythic Roads Press for having this available in the "read now" section!
I am actually not a huge sci-fi reader, so normally I wouldn't have picked this book up. But I am trying to build a feedback ratio on netgalley and the description of the book said that the main character was autistic", so I decided to read it. And it has been one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I should clear up that this is not the typical hard sci-fi story. It's kind of a mix between a dystopian climate fiction and a sweet YA contemporary. We follow our main character Lane, the little sister of the most famous woman on earth, who invented the gravdrive, a device that made it possible for humanity to inhabit the moon and save themselves from the climate crisis that has devastated our planet. The problem is that that woman was killed by an enourmous dictatorial empire named the melt.
The book starts when Lane arrives to the first moon colony, without the sister that started it all and the melt trying to shut them down.
The book has an overall slow pace, we know there are dangerous things happening and that the stakes have never been higher for our main characters, but we are inmersed on Lane's head, which is mainly worried about getting through her every day life. The book, at least to me, felt very warm and cozy, we followed all the mundane things that happened in the day to day of the moon colony, and watching the protagonist coming of age through her own grief and fears. It's exactly the type of story that I adore reading, and this one felt more specific to me and my taste because it existed in a world where queerness, disability and racial diversity are the norm.
Probably, my favourite thing about the whole book were the characters. Every single one of them was incredibly well though out and developped troughout the novel, and the author was careful weaving their storylines through the plot, which I also really enjoyed.
Because, don't take me wrong, the sci-fi aspect was definitely there in the form of a mystery. It was complex, but very easy to comprehend at the same time. It was completely believable in what comes to our own near future, regarding our concerns with climate change and the treath of totalitarian rule over our modern democracy systems.
I would say that Moon Dust in My Hairnet's ultimate message is of hope, hope that everything will be okay, wether with our personal struggles or the ones that concern us all, and the trust we have to have in each other to make things happen. And those are some of my favorite things, so YES, give it a try, even if you are not a sci-fi reader.
I am actually not a huge sci-fi reader, so normally I wouldn't have picked this book up. But I am trying to build a feedback ratio on netgalley and the description of the book said that the main character was autistic", so I decided to read it. And it has been one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I should clear up that this is not the typical hard sci-fi story. It's kind of a mix between a dystopian climate fiction and a sweet YA contemporary. We follow our main character Lane, the little sister of the most famous woman on earth, who invented the gravdrive, a device that made it possible for humanity to inhabit the moon and save themselves from the climate crisis that has devastated our planet. The problem is that that woman was killed by an enourmous dictatorial empire named the melt.
The book starts when Lane arrives to the first moon colony, without the sister that started it all and the melt trying to shut them down.
The book has an overall slow pace, we know there are dangerous things happening and that the stakes have never been higher for our main characters, but we are inmersed on Lane's head, which is mainly worried about getting through her every day life. The book, at least to me, felt very warm and cozy, we followed all the mundane things that happened in the day to day of the moon colony, and watching the protagonist coming of age through her own grief and fears. It's exactly the type of story that I adore reading, and this one felt more specific to me and my taste because it existed in a world where queerness, disability and racial diversity are the norm.
Probably, my favourite thing about the whole book were the characters. Every single one of them was incredibly well though out and developped troughout the novel, and the author was careful weaving their storylines through the plot, which I also really enjoyed.
Because, don't take me wrong, the sci-fi aspect was definitely there in the form of a mystery. It was complex, but very easy to comprehend at the same time. It was completely believable in what comes to our own near future, regarding our concerns with climate change and the treath of totalitarian rule over our modern democracy systems.
I would say that Moon Dust in My Hairnet's ultimate message is of hope, hope that everything will be okay, wether with our personal struggles or the ones that concern us all, and the trust we have to have in each other to make things happen. And those are some of my favorite things, so YES, give it a try, even if you are not a sci-fi reader.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Blood and Gun violence
Minor: Domestic abuse and Child abuse