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c_dmckinney's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Cancer, Grief, Slavery, Xenophobia, Gun violence, and Murder
Minor: Animal death, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Trafficking, Body horror, Death of parent, Murder, Confinement, Gore, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood
schnaucl's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book is more optimistic about people than I am while still being pretty cynical about government. QAnon is briefly acknowledged, but a conspiracy doesn't grow around the incursions because not enough people believe it. At this point I'm not sure what you couldn't get large segments of the population to believe. Surely some people would be absolutely convinced it was the work of one or more enemy countries (who naturally had false flag operations on their own population so they wouldn't be blamed).
I'm also not sure one or more countries wouldn't take the incursions as an excuse to go to war. Maybe they were too busy cleaning up the aftermath and were afraid there would be more incursions. Or maybe the novella was just too short to get into it.
I do wish we'd spent a little more time with Katharine and Susan before they were separated because I liked their interaction and would have liked to see more of it, but again, novella.
As always, it was very well written. The science seems well thought out (though I'm a lay person so maybe it just sounds convincing). I did think the detail about the creatures having to bring their own physics with them to exist in our world was interesting and I remember the author talking about how an animal that large would collapse under its own weight in reality, hence the laws of physics being rewritten to allow it to happen.
I'm also not sure one or more countries wouldn't take the incursions as an excuse to go to war. Maybe they were too busy cleaning up the aftermath and were afraid there would be more incursions. Or maybe the novella was just too short to get into it.
I do wish we'd spent a little more time with Katharine and Susan before they were separated because I liked their interaction and would have liked to see more of it, but again, novella.
As always, it was very well written. The science seems well thought out (though I'm a lay person so maybe it just sounds convincing). I did think the detail about the creatures having to bring their own physics with them to exist in our world was interesting and I remember the author talking about how an animal that large would collapse under its own weight in reality, hence the laws of physics being rewritten to allow it to happen.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Violence and Blood
Minor: Death, Kidnapping, and Death of parent
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