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seedreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, and Animal death
misty_kb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery
Moderate: Child death, Animal death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Xenophobia
evbyrd's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
Graphic: Confinement
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Child abuse, and Child death
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
biobeetle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Dysphoria
Moderate: Ableism and Panic attacks/disorders
thoseoldcrows23's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Animal death
Moderate: Blood, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Death, Grief, Medical content, Slavery, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
buttercat42's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Animal death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, and Panic attacks/disorders
scifi_rat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Prose: 3 ★
Pace: 4★
Concept/Execution: 4.5★/4★
Characters: 3★
Worldbuilding: 4.5★
Ending: 3.25★
Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Eating disorder, Violence, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Blood, Grief, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gore, Infertility, Drug use, Vomit, and Xenophobia
dragon_named_fox's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Animal death and Slavery
Minor: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders
A question sci-fi has been asking since the birth of sci-fi, what is considered life? What makes a person, a person? We follow a human raised by and AI, and an AI being raised by that human, but also how they raise themselves in environments they weren't intended for. Both "sentients" were created for a purpose, but grew outside of that intended purpose, and struggle through what it means to be more than what you were made for.maeverose's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
2.75
I love her other books, but so far this series is not working for me and I’m considering dnfing it. I was so bored. I didn’t really care for Sidra’s storyline at all, even though I typically love sentient AI stories. Jane’s pov was far more interesting, but I really didn’t like her narrative voice. Her constant categorizing of things into ‘good’ ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’, saying something is ‘real ___’ over and over, her angsty teen phase… It made complete sense for her character but it was overdone and got very annoying for me to read.
As well, it really bothers me how gender is handled in this series. Becky Chambers handles it much better in the Monk and Robot series (though it’s still not perfect). I think it was probably unintentional, but in this book and in small angry planet, she always strictly ties gender to biological sex. There’s an alien species that has four sexes, so they use different pronouns for each of those sexes, but none of the characters identify as trans, and when it comes to most species it’s treated as a given that they just identify as a man or woman based on their biological sex. They always rely on someone’s physical characteristics to judge what pronouns to use.
I wish I liked this series but I just don’t
Graphic: Medical content, Child death, Death, Animal death, and Child abuse
Moderate: Vomit, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood
Minor: Excrement, Ableism, Eating disorder, Cancer, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Gore
Graphic: dog death and eating of dogs (it’s mentioned very often) Moderate: explosion (that killed people) Minor: not an actual eating disorder but someone has to skip meals to survive and ends up extremely thin and malnourished.dancers_and_dragons's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This book was heartfelt and emotional in the best of ways, from the interactions between characters to the descriptions of memories, to the heart-wrenching low moments of the two main characters when they hit their lowest points. Without giving anything away, it's the story of two who are more alike than they know trying to make it through their respective journeys and managing the hiccups that come up along the way. I deeply appreciated the world building, much as I did with Chambers' first book, and I can't wait to read the next one when I have a chance.
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery
Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, and Classism
Minor: Cannibalism, Medical content, Xenophobia, War, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Eating disorder