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
andatherrin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Sexual content
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
hamletslover's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.25
Graphic: Blood, Rape, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Grief, Abandonment, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Murder, Medical trauma, and Drug use
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