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Goldilocks by L.R. Lam

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hannahmcaulay's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring tense 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

3.75

brisingr's review against another edition

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1.0

1.5 ???

Rach i am so sorry, I take back my statement, maybe sci-fi misses when written by women too, sometimes.
This was just all........ somewhat slightly okay ideas and that's it. Slightly bland writing style, absolutely terrible characters!!!!!! (and for a book with a core of at least 6 main characters, you'd think they'd get to get a personality in three hundred pages. it wasn't the case) and everything else was so surface level it was painful.
Like... I get what it was trying to do, but did it have to fail so monumentally? I was super bored while reading this, and I kept expecting for things to be properly explained or to develop into something truly meaningful, but after two hundred pages i just gave up the hope it'll be anything more than annoyance. A disappointment, really, because this could have been good if everything was done differently - I can't tell you how happy I am to be done reading it.

bookph1le's review

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4.0

This was a pretty great book for me to break my fast from science fiction. Considering I seem to live in a scifi novel, I haven't had much interest in reading them lately, but I did very much enjoy the way this book transported me to space.

One of the things I liked best about this book was that its story played out at its own pace. This is a reflective book, one that delves deeply into Naomi's character and what made her who she is. This surprised me, since I was expecting something more of a thrill ride, but I very much appreciated that characterization doesn't end up taking a back seat to the action, as happens too often in some of the more action-oriented books I read.

That's not to say this book doesn't have tense moments that make the narrative speed by, because it does. I'm a big fan of closed mysteries, and an environment doesn't get much more closed than a spaceship near Mars with only five inhabitants. Once the mystery kicks into gear, the book becomes pretty nail-biting.

There were a few aspects of the book I didn't like quite as much. The way women had been stripped of their rights felt a little underdeveloped, and while given what's currently going on in U.S. culture, I didn't find the concept too hard to believe, it also didn't feel fully fleshed to me. I also would have liked some more detail about the nationalism that got Cochran elected.

Lastly, the resolution felt a bit rushed to me. I didn't want it to be drawn-out, but the ending felt a bit like a race to the ending.

Still, overall this was a very good read that totally transported me whenever I picked it up.

kat7890erina's review against another edition

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3.0

I was intrigued by the premise of this one, but the execution didn't thrill me.

lost_between_worlds's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Quick read and a fun book. Unfortunately the author does a lot of telling instead of showing.
It puts a lot of emphasis on what might happen on our earth, some of the things that at first seem like a big story thing, don't influence the story overly much and was never touched upon / resolved by the end.