This is the first book I have read by the author.
I’m pretty sure I will read more.
Overall, the book was very easy to read. The plot worked.
The main characters worked.
The setting: I had a bit of trouble conceptualizing the ship,
which is basically a ship that is sent out with all the known biomes of earth
so that the ship can seed a new planet. In the descriptions, the ship didn’t
seem big enough for all the author wanted from it. But I realized that it was
mostly a metaphor for earth. The idea was cool and all, so in reading I gave my
world-building issues a bit of a pass.
Until the end.
I don’t want to spoil things, but the plot worked – until the
end (for me, because reading is a subjective experience shaped by all my own
experiences which may or may not be shared by you).
But the thing felt tacked on as if the author had created
this wonderful detailed painting, but didn’t leave enough space anywhere for
him to sign it. It didn’t feel true to the characters or the plot and it felt a
little fantastic. Though the world at the end is interesting and worthy of more
interest, how the characters got there isn’t as important.
So, like, I’ll read more.
This just may not have been the best introduction.
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