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Долгий путь к маленькой сердитой планете by Becky Chambers

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dev921's review against another edition

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adventurous 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

4.0

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chelseazhao's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

If you’re looking for a slow build, character focused story then this is for you.

I absolutely loved taking my time with this and just experiencing the world (universe?) that Becky Chambers created.

This book does focus less on a fast paced plot and more on characters and their relationships with others.

This was the perfect read for people that love Firefly and Mass Effect. And it is something that I could totally see as a tv show.
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miles's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • 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

Absolutely loved it. There are so many things to mention and I’m already scrambling to try and remember them all for this review, but my god am I in love with the world-building in this book (and the series as a whole). 

First of all, all the crew members are absolutely lovely and the ones you don’t like at first, you still warm up to (at least I did, and there was only the one for me). Either way, they are all very compelling characters and I wish we could stay with them for longer, but the book does a very good job in giving us insight into all of their personal and cultural backstories and it’s brilliantly done. 

On that note, love love love all the different species and cultures Chambers has cooked up. Some very interesting stuff and lots to make you ponder about our society and how it might be changed for the better. Though I feel like for some of the things I’d love to implement, we’d have to start from scratch (which is a-ok by me tbh). I absolutely love Aandrisk family structure and relations and would honestly love to have our society work like that. 

But yeah, so much good shit, 10/10 will absolutely revisit at some point in the future. Effortlessly queer. Found family. So bloody lovely.
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therainbowshelf's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing slow-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

I've been looking forward to reading this one for a long time, and it was well worth the wait. I absolutely loved this! The characters are so fun, and the world building delves deeply into each race's culture and mannerisms in such interesting ways. It's lower action than most scifi, so it won't be everyone's favorite. It reminded me a lot of Firefly and Titan AE. 
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lynxpardinus's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective

4.0

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bergha1998's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Like everything I’ve read so far by Becky Chambers this book will make you feel more understood and also expand your mind. It’s delightfully funny and lighthearted at times and then so breathtakingly deep and emotional. I didn’t know Sci-fi or any book that wasn’t self-help would make me feel so understood. Perfection. 

Found Family, Romance Subplots

“We cannot blame ourselves for the wars our parents start. Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away.”

“You found something dark within your own house, and you are wondering how much of it has rubbed off on you.”

“The truth is, Rosemary, that you are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things. That darkness exists within all of us.”

“All any of us can do—is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”

“How much of me is actually you?”
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maddie_can_read's review against another edition

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

2.0

I started off really enjoying this book. I liked the writing and the characterization and thought the set-up was interesting. I was intrigued by what Rosemary did to end up with the crew. I liked the worldbuilding descriptions. I was curious what would happen on their space journey. 

But then it just started to slog in the middle. I thought there would be more of a plot, more tension.. I just felt bored. I thought we'd get to know the characters better but they were all just super nice and very 2 dimensional. The vibe was very like overly happy/ juvenile? But then there was lots of sex talk/ alcohol talk/ mild drug use talk which I didn't think meshed very well. 

Kizzy was a little too manic-pixi dream girl for me. Rosemary was very non-descript. Ashby was too nice-guy, like to the extent he didn't want to get weapons even after they were space mugged? Why is Corbin an asshole? Just to balance everyone else being super nice? I thought the romance between Jenks and the ai Lovey was very intriguing but then the book never went into how they got together or why they liked each other or what attraction looks like to an AI? I liked the non-human characters Dr. Chef and Sissix. The sexual relationship between Sissix and Rosemary could have been interesting but it just seemed like Rosemary was being nice because Sissix's species likes being intimate with everyone? It seems like Rosemary just offers to have sex with Sissix because Rosemary feels bad which is a weird dynamic. Lovey the AI being reset didn't really have the emotional impact it could have because we didn't really get to know her outside of her relationship with Jenks which was barely developed. The ethical implications of Ashby healing Ohan without permission wasn't examined
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I kept going because I thought the Rosemary reveal would lead to something. I was so disappointed by it. It was so boring and had no repercussions or consequences. It also felt like the author tricked us a bit because
she hadnt even done anything! It was her dad being a war criminal and she didn't know? And then that's not examined??

I liked the diversity of the characters and the inclusion of LGBTQ references
but I thought using neo-pronouns to refer to the space pirates that mug them in one scene was a little much in that it felt like it didn't really add anything to the book but it was just the author reminding the reader that neo-pronouns exist in real life
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The rest of the book just felt really disconnected, just a series of unrelated scenes one after another. Felt kind of like I was just reading a bunch of vignettes with no stakes.

This book felt too cheesy and corny for me for how long it was and the lack of a tight plot. 
Like everyone on the ship is best friends, whatever tension there is, is extremely brief and resolved immediately. To the extent that any tension doesn't even feel like tension because you know everything will be ok because it's a book where the main characters have plot armor. 

The space bandits, the bombs in the ship, when Corbin is arrested and horribly abused, Jenks and Lovey deciding not to put Lovey in a body
 
Characters are just pouring their hearts out to one another, even characters that just met! 

The worst part about this book for me is that it took me a long time to realize what type of book this was. 

I almost did not finish at about 60% but I was listening to an audiobook while sick so I just put it on fast playback.  

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foxclcves's review against another edition

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

5.0

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nolalee's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? No

5.0


The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is one of the most perfect cozy science fiction novels. How can something so out of this world be so down to earth? Chambers creates an ensemble cast of species and characters, dialogue, and provoking thought experiments that are innately grounded in a not so far future reality. Human captain Ashby Santoso of The Wayfarer and his interspecies space tunneling crew (the interstate highway road crew, if you will, of this science fiction story) acquire a job that will take them to the outer edges of their known galaxy. Following the Wayfarer Crew to metropolitan planet hops and backwater moons, we are transported to a beautifully visual and visceral science fiction universe bursting with the full range of life's ups and downs.

I adore this book and this series. I find myself re-reading the Wayfarers series yearly and I always come back to the main focus of these books: what does it mean to be a person, alive and experiencing this world? The warmth radiating from these spacefaring chapters will call to you like an interstellar beacon to continue picking up this series again and again.
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mobymaize's review against another edition

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  • 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

Damn this shit is so good. I really like a sci-fi universe that is built around the people in it, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet provides. :)
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