megyeager'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
4.25
Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Sexual violence, and Rape
Moderate: Torture
martamae77'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, and Death
Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide
Minor: Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Incest
rinku's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Spoiler
Orion was the bad guy and the former Elder, Harley would kill himself and what happens with the old people at the ship – this last reveal was still creepySpoiler
First, it is dramatically revealed that the ship will take much longer to arrive at the planet than Amy thought and that she will probably never meet her parents again. Then, like I’ve mentioned, we get to know that Orion was the former Elder, and Elder kills him. I wondered though how no one noticed before that Orion couldn’t be located. The final reveal shocked me as well: Elder woke Amy up because he was so obsessed with her. I feel terribly sorry for Amy, and I wonder how she’ll deal with all of this in the next bookGraphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcoholism, Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Incest, and Mental illness
Minor: Racism and Colonisation
annaluzia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
There is unnecessary and way too descriptive sexual assault happening
Spoiler
with a rescue from a male character...Some other things as well that I'll put in the content warning tags!
It was still an enjoyable read in terms of easy writing style. But that's what the half star is for, my opinion of the book got worse with every single chapter I've read. Insta-love happening, really non complex characters and plot, easy to see plot twists, unrealistic things happening and readily excusing the horrible stuff one of the main characters does are the main reasons I did not like the book.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Drug use, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Xenophobia
beccaruthe'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? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Minor: Suicide, Slavery, Racism, Violence, Incest, Forced institutionalization, Death, Blood, and Mental illness
lisbet's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Spoiler
When I watched the movie Passengers, I could not get past the fact that Chris Pratt’s character woke Jennifer Lawrence’s character without her consent - an irrevocable decision that couldn’t be undone and robbed her of the life and future she had chosen. This book uses the same situation to set off the plot, and that is something that cannot be glossed over. However, the author doesn’t dwell on this at all, and doesn’t allow Amy the anger and other emotional and relationship fall-out of that discovery, and in my opinion that is a huge cop-out on the author’s part. This is largely responsible for my not being able to give the book a higher rating.But even when you overlook that, there are still issues that keep this book from being great. For me another huge flaw is how the author approaches the topic of sexual assault.
Spoiler
The attempted gang rape of the female protagonist (and its aftermath) is completely glossed over. Most infuriatingly of all, the leader of the assailants is not dealt with or punished in any way what-so-ever and completely disappears from the story afterwards. WTF?One thing I’d love for the author to have explored in depth is Amy’s nightmares and dreams while she was in stasis. What caused them? Why did she have them if no one else who’d been in stasis before her hadn’t?
Some of the things I enjoyed was the discussion about what separates and defines sane vs. crazy, and the multitude of problems (both logistic and moral) of generational ships.
Like much YA SciFi, this is light on the science and there’s not much explanation for why the people are traveling across the universe to a new planet? Are they the only ones leaving earth? Are others going to the same planet? Other planets?
While I did have some problems with the book, I am planning to read the next book in the series
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide