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A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

2 reviews

toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

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

5.0

Absolutely loved this book, so Jewish in both values and in actual representation and makes me feel like maybe things will be okay in the world one day. 

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hwesta's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful reflective
  • 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 loved this book. 

It's set a couple generations into the future, where watershed networks have formed to try and take care of and heal the earth, pushing back on the power of nation states and corporations. It opens with aliens arriving and saying "I'm so glad we arrived before you destroyed yourselves, time to leave!" and humanity, or at least the narrator, saying "but we just started fixing it!" And a book ensues, full of politics and people and aliens and different perspectives and hope. 

It's also unapologetically queer and polyamorous and Jewish. 

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