Reviews and Comments

I feel bad for still complaining but it's a page later and ugh, I'm so tired of just jumping right into the middle of the next scene with nothing but a section break as transition! Are they dreaming now? What's the setting? It has to have been at least several hours (sorry, "cycles") in-world, can I at least get a sentence to reset my mood from "glum and worried about my friend" before dumping me into "running for my life from a scary monster"?

So many times in this book I've been so confused about where we are and how much time has passed, and been hit by abrupt mood shifts.

I don't know if this is some sort of hip new narrative style or what, but I don't like it.

We're halfway through the book, why are we still putting conversions from your space clock to earth time in parentheses? I know it's YA, but your clock is already suspiciously close to earth hours and days anyway, we don't need to be reminded that a metacycle is the thinly-veiled day-analogue every time, I promise!

So far I am not terribly impressed. I'll probably finish it because book club, but I've hadvs hard time getting into this one.

Probably not one I'd pick up myself, but it's Hugo book club time, so here we go!

Okay, that wrapped up pretty decently, with all the genre storylines twisting around each other. Overall, really liked it!

I am nervous about how the things resolve! It is good!

Not even halfway through and this book is already destroying me in the best way, and oops new characters are getting some development! I was not prepared.

The plot thickens! I am worried

Umm wow I love all these characters and feel fiercely protective of them already they are all so good and deserve so much better and they'd better damn well get it

It's already very good!

Read this for Hugo book club. I liked this better than Elatsoe, but still not my favorite, for similar reasons. I think I've been spoiled by the writing in really good YA maybe. It's a fine story, and I did appreciate getting into a mythology I'm not familiar with, which really is where this book shines, but the writing and especially the real-world bits fell flat for me.

It just keeps being wild and out there in very good ways! My hold is up, so gonna stop here and pick up at Part III later probs

Damn, this worldbuilding just keeps going! I'm loving it

Wow. I don't know exactly how I feel about this book, except that it's a lot. Certainly like nothing I've read before, and full of so much that refuses to be categorized. I guess no one is likely to come into this book expecting a light read, and it is not. It's about three complicated people and their failures, triumphs, griefs, uncertainties, inconsistencies, desires, hopes. And a whole lot of gender.