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In the Quick
by Kate Hope Day
"There was no possibility of a space walk that day."
I might be able to imagine a seriously interesting "Jane Eyre in space" novel, but this isn't it. I'm curious why the author, with her PhD in English, chose to do this, especially when there doesn't seem to be much point to it. There are obvious plot connections - the child sitting behind a curtain in a window-seat reading a book, then being sent away to school, climbing into bed with another pupil in the school... - the points are there, but go nowhere. Then there's another plot point connection which is unbelievable, almost absurd, there only because the Jane Eyre connection required it, but with no real consequence to the direction of the novel. June (Jane/June... get it?) the narrator is interesting in the sense that especially early in the novel she seems to be somewhere on the autism spectrum. The other characters, with the possible exception of the love interest, are pretty much indistinguishable. There's a really suspenseful and interesting story in the stranded astronauts at the beginning, but it gets lost somewhere, only to reappear almost incidentally at the end. Oh, by the way, remember those astronauts?? But it's not a terrible book. I found June to be an intriguing character and the space aspects were cool when they weren't completely unbelievable.
I might be able to imagine a seriously interesting "Jane Eyre in space" novel, but this isn't it. I'm curious why the author, with her PhD in English, chose to do this, especially when there doesn't seem to be much point to it. There are obvious plot connections - the child sitting behind a curtain in a window-seat reading a book, then being sent away to school, climbing into bed with another pupil in the school... - the points are there, but go nowhere. Then there's another plot point connection which is unbelievable, almost absurd, there only because the Jane Eyre connection required it, but with no real consequence to the direction of the novel. June (Jane/June... get it?) the narrator is interesting in the sense that especially early in the novel she seems to be somewhere on the autism spectrum. The other characters, with the possible exception of the love interest, are pretty much indistinguishable. There's a really suspenseful and interesting story in the stranded astronauts at the beginning, but it gets lost somewhere, only to reappear almost incidentally at the end. Oh, by the way, remember those astronauts?? But it's not a terrible book. I found June to be an intriguing character and the space aspects were cool when they weren't completely unbelievable.