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A review by jugglingpup
Local Star by Aimee Ogden
2.0
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I got an ARC of this book.
I got excited. I saw polyamorous and space opera (and people tagged it as queer). So I needed this book. I thought it was a graphic novel based on the cover, but it was not. That was a bit of an adjustment.
The story itself moves pretty fast. It is the basic sci-fi plot of wrongly accused, the enemy really did it sort of thing. There really is no doubts that the accused didn’t do it, I don’t feel like I have spoiled anything by saying these things. There was a lot of talk of ships and hub systems, basic generic sci-fi stuff. I didn’t even really get why this was labeled as space opera. There was nothing that was space opera to me.
The only thing that made this stand out was the polyam portion. The polyam portion read as so flat though. I wanted to care about the polycules, but I just didn’t. There were a lot of names at once and a lot of red flags. Why was the MC so insistant that she needed another partner and that no one liked her? It was so, so basic polyam problems that I was annoyed. I wanted more.
It gets worse though, the book was tagged as queer. I thought this meant I would get queer romance, but nope. The main romance that was happening on page was m/f. I lost interest real fast. It was great to have a bi/pan/omni/poly MC, but I am also really annoyed that I had to sit through what I thought was going to be a cute queer space opera for something that could have easily been read as straight basic sci-fi.
Overall, I wanted to love this book, but I just didn’t. I had to force myself to read and it was sometimes just a page at a time. It was not the book I had imagined and it was not a book I really enjoyed. It wasn’t bad, but it was not for me. I am sort of relieved to be done with it. I was getting really grumpy about little details.
I got an ARC of this book.
I got excited. I saw polyamorous and space opera (and people tagged it as queer). So I needed this book. I thought it was a graphic novel based on the cover, but it was not. That was a bit of an adjustment.
The story itself moves pretty fast. It is the basic sci-fi plot of wrongly accused, the enemy really did it sort of thing. There really is no doubts that the accused didn’t do it, I don’t feel like I have spoiled anything by saying these things. There was a lot of talk of ships and hub systems, basic generic sci-fi stuff. I didn’t even really get why this was labeled as space opera. There was nothing that was space opera to me.
The only thing that made this stand out was the polyam portion. The polyam portion read as so flat though. I wanted to care about the polycules, but I just didn’t. There were a lot of names at once and a lot of red flags. Why was the MC so insistant that she needed another partner and that no one liked her? It was so, so basic polyam problems that I was annoyed. I wanted more.
It gets worse though, the book was tagged as queer. I thought this meant I would get queer romance, but nope. The main romance that was happening on page was m/f. I lost interest real fast. It was great to have a bi/pan/omni/poly MC, but I am also really annoyed that I had to sit through what I thought was going to be a cute queer space opera for something that could have easily been read as straight basic sci-fi.
Overall, I wanted to love this book, but I just didn’t. I had to force myself to read and it was sometimes just a page at a time. It was not the book I had imagined and it was not a book I really enjoyed. It wasn’t bad, but it was not for me. I am sort of relieved to be done with it. I was getting really grumpy about little details.