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slowreaderpeter's Reviews (209)
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Best and quickest way I can describe this is delightfully unhinged! Go have a riot of a time in this magical school with the snarkiest teenagers!
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Thank you to the author and Solaris publishing for providing me with an ARC of this.
I rather enjoyed this one. It’s set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars, Hutchings’ debut novel, but it functions as a standalone. We follow 2 main perspectives, and a third that is more supplementary to the others. The two main ones are a young woman living as a pickpocket on a space station after she’s woken up from cryostasis with no memories of her past, as she’s about to become embroiled in a larger heist; and a young girl growing up on a planet of conservative, religious fanatics as she slowly awakens from the propagandized state she’s grown up under.
This book is primarily about second chances, getting a clean slate, the opportunity to become someone new and shed your old life behind. And it’s also about waking up from religious fanaticism, and how difficult and lonely that can be at times.
My biggest complaint of this book is probably how reliant the first half is on info-dumping and world-building. It definitely feels like it’s more focused on fleshing out the world, the memory loss, the religious order and planet way more than progressing the plot almost at all for a bit. The second half is much more streamlined, and I enjoyed the full book (in large part because I love Hutchings’ voice as a writer). But I do think the first half could have gone a little lighter on the info-dumping.
On the whole, I’d still recommend this, especially for fans of Becky Chambers or perhaps fans of Travis Baldree who also enjoy space opera.
I rather enjoyed this one. It’s set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars, Hutchings’ debut novel, but it functions as a standalone. We follow 2 main perspectives, and a third that is more supplementary to the others. The two main ones are a young woman living as a pickpocket on a space station after she’s woken up from cryostasis with no memories of her past, as she’s about to become embroiled in a larger heist; and a young girl growing up on a planet of conservative, religious fanatics as she slowly awakens from the propagandized state she’s grown up under.
This book is primarily about second chances, getting a clean slate, the opportunity to become someone new and shed your old life behind. And it’s also about waking up from religious fanaticism, and how difficult and lonely that can be at times.
My biggest complaint of this book is probably how reliant the first half is on info-dumping and world-building. It definitely feels like it’s more focused on fleshing out the world, the memory loss, the religious order and planet way more than progressing the plot almost at all for a bit. The second half is much more streamlined, and I enjoyed the full book (in large part because I love Hutchings’ voice as a writer). But I do think the first half could have gone a little lighter on the info-dumping.
On the whole, I’d still recommend this, especially for fans of Becky Chambers or perhaps fans of Travis Baldree who also enjoy space opera.