Reviews

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

shagdalen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

muhria's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

sarah_jess1029's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

coffeebean216's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: War

irisu's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

katie_m26's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I spent the first half bored and the second half confused and anxious. 

I appreciated that it passed the Bechtel test, but it overall had too much detail for me that I felt like distracted from themes of teamwork and trust. I would like to see it as a movie where the fluff is removed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Infertility

Moderate: Pregnancy

vluv's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

 I can see how some of the real world implications bring down the rating for other readers, but purely from a story stand point it was very entertaining and an easy read.

The one thing that erked me is having highly important team members pregnant at the same time. They all would be recovering at the same time which wouldn’t make sense on such a tight crew

kivt's review

3.0

Started out very slow and seemed very YA at first; writing was overly expository. But about 60% thru, things picked up and started to get very fun. Worth picking up if the description interests you, but don’t worry if you put it back down again.

crypticalmoth's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The first half of this book is pretty slow and is very dense when it comes to the worldbuilding. Kitasei tends to tell her readers the lore instead of showing it to us, which is fine in some regards, but a lot of the worldbuilding is literally spelled out in ink. Nevertheless, I did read the second half of the book in a single day because that was when it really picked up and I loved how treacherous it felt towards the end. Overall, a pretty strong debut novel and I look forward to seeing what else Kitasei writes in the future.

deenice2819's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0