A review by ehmannky
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

adventurous hopeful fast-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

3.75

IIt's a fun, past-paced read that delves into repairing harm (if possible), the cost of justice, class divides and gender. The whole, reverse-sexism was an interesting take on the society as a whole, but I found the alternative family structure of 9 parents for every one child the most interesting world-building aspect (even if I'm still a little fuzzy on every parents' exact role in the family structure). Even the living-fish ship wasn't as interesting as all of that. I feel like the pacing at the end doesn't quite match the speed of the rest of the book, and it sort of feels like So Much happens So Fast and there's not a lot of time to process anything (an epilogue would have fit great here). Also, I felt that many of the secondary characters fell a little flat to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Body horror, and Sexism

The body horror in this book includes

includes disintegrating people into goo, finding their remains in stuff growing from the living ship and the ship impregnating the main character and tentacles coming out of her vagina (it makes sense in context). I personally didn't find these too graphic, but the latter certainly threw me through a loop.