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liketheday's review against another edition
4.0
The humans are back, with more baseball knowledge this time, and there's some boring trade negotiation and two sides getting to know each other until a bit of disaster strikes and our poor B-Team has figure out whodunnit or else find themselves the scapegoat in a seemingly inevitable war.
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roadtripreader's review against another edition
funny
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
One can't fill the soft spot I have for the B-Team - it's more like a crater in my heart.
Before I rearrange the lyrics to The Real Slim Shady and replace it with The Real B-Team, let me just get on my soapbox and announce that I am once again petitioning for a BrainPal.
My man with the BrainPal, Wilson coming through with the hail mary save. Every.single.time. AND I'm not bored yet.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
The Earthlings are coming! The Earthlings are coming! By god the earthlings are coming!. Lol okay but the Colonial Union and Earth relations are heating up and "The Clarke's" two earthings, CDF Lieutenant Wilson and Ambassador Abumwe have one of those missions.
Character Development/Favorite Character:
My Dream Cast for The B-Team if Hollywood or "Streamingland" deigns to put this on screen
🖤 Ambassador Abumwe - Viola Davis
🖤Hart Schmidt - Alexander Skarsgard, Lee Pace or Adam Driver(for height and weird hotness appeal).
🖤CDF LT Harry Wilson - Joseph Gordon Lewitt or Tom Hiddleston or Tim Tim Chalamet if he grows a bit more then maybe him.
🖤Neva Balla - Lupita Nyongo
🖤Captain Coloma - Salma Hayek or Penelope Cruz or if we go younger Gina Rodriguez or America Ferrera.
🖤Dr Inge Stone - Christina Hendricks or Emily Blunt. Maybe Anne Hathaway.
🖤Basquez The Engineer - Manny Montana (range keeps him typecast so this would be refreshing)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
Wilson and Lowen drinking some potent earth scotch and Lowen drunkenly realizing CDF soldiera can't get drunk.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “You’re engaging in the pathetic fallacy. Just because I look like a human being doesn’t mean I am. This body has more genetic material that’s not strictly human than it does material that is human.” (Wilson on being CDF modified)
🖤 “They’re either going to kill each other or start sleeping together simply as a defensive maneuver.” (Wilson on the new Clarke)
🖤 “Wilson realized his long-held wish that Abumwe would actually relax from time to time was clearly in error. This was a person who operated best and most efficiently when she was truly and genuinely pissed off;” (Wilson on Abumwe)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Blblllblblb Doodoodo of Burfinor,🤣 maybe Scalzi fell asleep on the keyboard but this name works wonders
■Magnetic Cups
■ The Human-to-CDF transfer process
■SmartBlood - oxygen sequestration
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025
Before I rearrange the lyrics to The Real Slim Shady and replace it with The Real B-Team, let me just get on my soapbox and announce that I am once again petitioning for a BrainPal.
My man with the BrainPal, Wilson coming through with the hail mary save. Every.single.time. AND I'm not bored yet.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
The Earthlings are coming! The Earthlings are coming! By god the earthlings are coming!. Lol okay but the Colonial Union and Earth relations are heating up and "The Clarke's" two earthings, CDF Lieutenant Wilson and Ambassador Abumwe have one of those missions.
Character Development/Favorite Character:
My Dream Cast for The B-Team if Hollywood or "Streamingland" deigns to put this on screen
🖤 Ambassador Abumwe - Viola Davis
🖤Hart Schmidt - Alexander Skarsgard, Lee Pace or Adam Driver(for height and weird hotness appeal).
🖤CDF LT Harry Wilson - Joseph Gordon Lewitt or Tom Hiddleston or Tim Tim Chalamet if he grows a bit more then maybe him.
🖤Neva Balla - Lupita Nyongo
🖤Captain Coloma - Salma Hayek or Penelope Cruz or if we go younger Gina Rodriguez or America Ferrera.
🖤Dr Inge Stone - Christina Hendricks or Emily Blunt. Maybe Anne Hathaway.
🖤Basquez The Engineer - Manny Montana (range keeps him typecast so this would be refreshing)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
Wilson and Lowen drinking some potent earth scotch and Lowen drunkenly realizing CDF soldiera can't get drunk.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “You’re engaging in the pathetic fallacy. Just because I look like a human being doesn’t mean I am. This body has more genetic material that’s not strictly human than it does material that is human.” (Wilson on being CDF modified)
🖤 “They’re either going to kill each other or start sleeping together simply as a defensive maneuver.” (Wilson on the new Clarke)
🖤 “Wilson realized his long-held wish that Abumwe would actually relax from time to time was clearly in error. This was a person who operated best and most efficiently when she was truly and genuinely pissed off;” (Wilson on Abumwe)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Blblllblblb Doodoodo of Burfinor,🤣 maybe Scalzi fell asleep on the keyboard but this name works wonders
■Magnetic Cups
■ The Human-to-CDF transfer process
■SmartBlood - oxygen sequestration
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025
literary__escapism's review against another edition
4.0
I'd taken a break between the 8th installment and this installment (the 9th). Even though the book is already released I'm continuing on with the installments on audio.
I remember why I enjoyed this one within minutes of listening. It's a fun series. I especially loved this installment because it involved Harry Wilson (my favorite) and Ambassador Abumwe (my second favorite) and had a mystery about it. Mysteries are my favorite genre, so it was a fun listen.
This one involved the Colonial Union and Earth and a diplomatic mission gone wrong, ending in the death of a Earthling.
Still enjoying, will still read/listen to more.
I remember why I enjoyed this one within minutes of listening. It's a fun series. I especially loved this installment because it involved Harry Wilson (my favorite) and Ambassador Abumwe (my second favorite) and had a mystery about it. Mysteries are my favorite genre, so it was a fun listen.
This one involved the Colonial Union and Earth and a diplomatic mission gone wrong, ending in the death of a Earthling.
Still enjoying, will still read/listen to more.
ferrisscottr's review against another edition
5.0
So what do we have with this episode? It's the 9th one (of 13 total) - we have Ambassador Abumwe & Harry Wilson again as the main characters - we have a murder and a mystery AND we are tying everything back to the main story arc...Nice!
Scalzi really latched onto the episodic format and ran with it. I'll save my final review for when the story ends but I'm really loving this so far.
Scalzi really latched onto the episodic format and ran with it. I'll save my final review for when the story ends but I'm really loving this so far.
scamp1234's review against another edition
3.0
For me this was another episode that mimics parts of earlier episodes. Doesn't really move the story along further, just develops a couple of the characters a little and moves us a week further into this experiment.
argent_'s review
5.0
In which the plot thickens even more and we see both a "Hello, Earthlings" (from CDF) and a "going green" (to CDF) jokes.
nooker's review
4.0
This story was as good as any of the others in the Human Division series, but seemed like a real filler piece. It didn't exactly feel like any of the plot was advanced, but perhaps it's setting something up for later.
nilchance's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting mystery, great new character dynamics, hell of an ending.
catevari's review against another edition
4.0
Still enjoying the chapters and overall story very much but I'm starting to wonder when we'll get some answers to the proliferating questions. Only four more chapters to go, none of the chapters are very long, and it still feels like we're lost in the weeds with no clear direction.
I do still trust Scalzi to bring it all together, but now I'm questioning when, at least.
I do still trust Scalzi to bring it all together, but now I'm questioning when, at least.
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