angelbabe_cj's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
As the second book of the Old Man's War series I was pleased with how well this book prompted my 'read it in a day and the details are fuzzy' memory of the first book without being overly info-dumpy.
I enjoyed getting to know the few recurring characters better (they generally only appeared as minor characters in OMW#1). And the new aspects of the universe were completely fascinating and allowed the necessary details and new information to be wrapped up in the character building experience.
There were plenty of twists and turns along the way of this plot, with some background details clearly building for later parts of the series. Some twists were somewhat predictable, others took me by surprise. Overall a compelling read and I'm putting the next one on my TBR.
I enjoyed getting to know the few recurring characters better (they generally only appeared as minor characters in OMW#1). And the new aspects of the universe were completely fascinating and allowed the necessary details and new information to be wrapped up in the character building experience.
There were plenty of twists and turns along the way of this plot, with some background details clearly building for later parts of the series. Some twists were somewhat predictable, others took me by surprise. Overall a compelling read and I'm putting the next one on my TBR.
Graphic: Grief, Violence, Gun violence, and Death
Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gore, and Cannibalism
Minor: Torture
The context of the book and whole series is extra-terrestrial warfare so most graphic and moderate warnings come up in that context. Their severity is mostly about how regularly they come up/how much detail there is. Specific things: Cannibalism -Spoiler
Technically not cannibalism, but humans are being used (by aliens) for food. Descriptions of the preparation of such is moderately detailed and was personally distressing.Spoiler
No description of death (at least not the repeatedly mentioned one) happens. SPOILER in fact the child is not dead, but they are repeatedly assumed to be so and this distresses a point of view character for large portions of the book.
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