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missmali's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Minor: Body horror and Death
smolfem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Moderate: Confinement, Death, and Abandonment
maeverose's review against another edition
4.0
It’s very abstract and nothing is explained to the reader. There’s multiple povs but few of them are named and we don’t have any way of knowing how many there are or when exactly it switches to a new person. This is done intentionally. It’s very disorienting, and I was left at the end not fully knowing what I just read. My main takeaway is that people, whether human or not in this case, are not meant to spend their lives working and are meant to live for themselves. How we need connections to other people and to nature and the world around us. It’s not natural for any living thing to dedicate their entire life to work. That’s not living. And of course it also explores what it means to be human and whether AI can become human.
Definitely check content warnings. Body horror, trypophobia, and questioning of reality are the main things I would say to be aware of.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Gore, Violence, and Blood
Graphic trypophobia descriptions. A significant theme throughout the whole book is existential questioning of reality and what makes someone human. It’s also a very abstract book and is very disorienting, with a lot of body horror (most of which isn’t exactly gory, but some is)lilybear3's review against another edition
3.75
I love that the statements are so short because we only get glimpses of the humans' and humanoids' stories. I also love that not everything is explained, the reader gets to speculate what is happening and what the objects are. It just adds to the mysteriousness.
This is probably because the song just came out and I've been obsessed with it that I'm making this connection, but oh my god does it fit well. V.A.N. by Bad Omens and Poppy is an awesome song that's about A.I. taking over and learning human behavior.
Moderate: Body horror and Death
fromtheyellowchair's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Child death
itsybitsygingie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror and Death
azureumbreon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death and Violence
directorpurry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Medical content, and Murder
Minor: Violence
pil4r's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
En principio, su formato resulta una propuesta diferente, refrescante: Ravn nos invita a conocer los sucesos que están teniendo lugar en la nave 6000 a través de los testimonios de sus tripulantes humanos y humanoides. Con muy limitados datos sobre quienes testifican y con información brindada a cuentagotas, esta obra se propone como un interesante trabajo para sus lectores, quienes debemos ir construyendo esta historia. Historia que, a su vez, se configura como una especie de mosaico siendo que son voces diversas -algunas en un estado cuasi febril, otras en instancias de crisis existenciales así como con trazos de ¿protesta?- las que le van dando su forma.
Este trabajo hace un uso de la ciencia ficcion en un formato para mí renovador con el fin de plantear comentarios y debates necesarios en relación a las diferencias de clases, la relación de explotación laboral y lo humano.
En términos de sensaciones, su lectura se asemeja al estar despertando de una ensoñación. Con un lenguaje por momentos etéreo, la autora logra que nos conectemos con esta historia -sobre todo en su segunda mitad- y el trabajo que la misma implica.
Recomiendo, principalmente, para interesadxs por la ciencia ficción y/o ficción especulativa y para quienes les aventure el trabajo y construcción propia propuesta.
Minor: Death
owenwilsonbaby's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
I can’t lie, I was almost in tears at the end of this novel. I don’t want to be reductive about a refined and original piece of writing, but the best way I could describe it to my sister without spoilers was like an expanded version of that ‘cells within cells’ scene in Bladerunner 2049, based on Nabokov’s Pale Fire. It has so much to say about people being exploited by capitalism, to the very end, and demonstrates this by stripping characters of names, instead turning their individual narrative passages into witness statements. As such, it might be difficult for some readers to piece together plot and character threads, but I feel like once you adjust to the book’s narrative style, you get swept up in it regardless. There are so many lines of beautiful prose about humanity and the qualities and meanings of being alive, of community, connection, memory, experience and survival. It sort of feels like a novel that is inherently about climate change without ever mentioning that overtly? Or at least collective responses to it. There were so many images in this that made me want to cry. I really loved it.
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Grief, and Murder