Reviews

Big Big Sky by Kristyn Dunnion

caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review against another edition

5.0

This book was wonderfully weird. I would be pretty select about who I might recommend this too, but I really liked it. The characters, despite being brain-washed assassins, were really compelling and complex. The dystopian world-building was super interesting...especially the use of this futuristic slang, which took me quite a while to get used to. Unlike other YA SF/F I've read lately, the stakes are pretty high in this book: you are actually worried about characters dying. Also, this book is super queer, in the stretchiest sense of that word: technically you have female-identified characters hooking up with each other, but they're pretty post-human (one of them turns into a giant black bird later, another turns into a fish-human hybrid). They live in an all-female society and when they meet human men later on, they call them "strange beasts" and use the pronoun "it" to describe them.
More thoughts later!

marathonofbooks's review against another edition

4.0

http://amysmarathonofbooks.ca/big-big-sky/