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branomir 's review for:
Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
As I've said before, Scalzi trades fast paced action and excitement for depth. He doesn't quite do much emotional stuff, usually just one or two big moments in a whole book and some little ones and he stays with one character the entire novel. His books are good, great even, but I do sometimes miss a little bit of extra. Too much telling, not enough showing. So what happened here is, he just rewrote his previous novel but simply from a different point of view. An odd idea but it worked, it was fun to read and filled in a few blanks left from the previous one. In the end though, I couldn't help but wonder why he just didn't put all this stuff in the previous novel. He seems a little scared to write a book that is too long. A shame. This book is probably gonna be polarising, I for one liked it. Still loving this series despite the few flaws.