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A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

11 reviews

zgreyz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

loved this more than the first in the series i think.  really love these characters.  solid wholesome ending.  If you've ever felt very left out of society or dealt with isolation this'll hit you in the feels hard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

rororow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

thoseoldcrows23's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Becky Chamber's books are always so comforting to me. there's something so quite and cozy about them that makes them just feel like a warm hug. I didn't love this one quite as much as the first Wayfarers book, but it still really hit the spot, and I'm very excited to continue the series. Specifically, I  loved how this book grapples with the question of personhood and the difference between what is right and what is allowed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Vomit

maeverose's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

2.75

TL;DR: I was very bored. I liked the secondary pov more than Sidra’s. I don’t like how gender is handled. I’m realizing I’m not a huge fan of Becky Chamber’s writing style…

I love her other books, but so far this series is not working for me and I’m considering dnfing it. I was so bored. I didn’t really care for Sidra’s storyline at all, even though I typically love sentient AI stories. Jane’s pov was far more interesting, but I really didn’t like her narrative voice. Her constant categorizing of things into ‘good’ ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’, saying something is ‘real ___’ over and over, her angsty teen phase… It made complete sense for her character but it was overdone and got very annoying for me to read.

As well, it really bothers me how gender is handled in this series. Becky Chambers handles it much better in the Monk and Robot series (though it’s still not perfect). I think it was probably unintentional, but in this book and in small angry planet, she always strictly ties gender to biological sex. There’s an alien species that has four sexes, so they use different pronouns for each of those sexes, but none of the characters identify as trans, and when it comes to most species it’s treated as a given that they just identify as a man or woman based on their biological sex. They always rely on someone’s physical characteristics to judge what pronouns to use.

I wish I liked this series but I just don’t

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Eating disorder, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

Graphic: dog death and eating of dogs (it’s mentioned very often) Moderate: explosion (that killed people) Minor: not an actual eating disorder but someone has to skip meals to survive and ends up extremely thin and malnourished.

ireadqueerbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

corvidaeus's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use, Medical content, and Alcohol

audbaum's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I loved this book. It explored interesting ideas, had a fantastic cast of characters, and ended in what I would consider a very satisfying way. I loved the way we see our main character change over the course of the book, figuring out how to navigate the world in an unfamiliar setting and with an unfamiliar body. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

As she is trying to navigate the world in her new body, the a character is sometimes anxious, feels like a burden, and occasionally thinks what it would be like to cease to exist. In a bid to survive her situation, a character must hunt wild dogs for food.

The book goes into some detail about how she must prepare the dogs to be eaten, from washing the grime off of them to smashing the bugs that were living on them.

A character works through trauma surrounding being created to be enslaved, and living much of her young life like that.

fraxisle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child death, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts