Reviews

Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers

msrae89's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense 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

3.5

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

3.0

Honestly? I was really bored reading this (which explains why it took me so long to read). There just wasn't enough excitement or enough happening to keep me interested. Also, there were too many POV's. I kept getting confused about which character was which (they were way too similar, especially the women), and the only one who had a remotely interesting story was Eyas, and that's mainly because she helped you learn more about Exodans and their way of life.

Not a lot really happened in this book, and it honestly isn't that memorable. I enjoyed learning about Exodan life, but feel like this should have been a short story following half the amount of characters.

I will still read the fourth book in this series and anything else Becky Chambers releases (I've heard good things about her novellas which I am very excited to read).

ali3ba's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

febrvaryfriday's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-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

4.25

mirrorstarweb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional relaxing

5.0

trisarahtops_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

writeronherway's review against another edition

4.0

As always, I adored Chambers discussions of philosophy, her meticulous, detailed world building and the tenderness of her characters.

For me though I found this one more difficult to follow. The last third was seamless, beautiful and the multiple perspectives aided the pace but early on I found it difficult to tell the characters apart (Tessa/Isobel/Eyas/Aya), the multiple narratives kept things slow and fairly major events were not given enough time or explained until the very end which made things feel a little disjointed.

This series is incredible. It manages to reflect everything we are dealing with in the world right now and subtly embed it in these character's world's. It's so thought provoking and definitely earns the comparison to Ursula LeGuinn. Becky Chambers has definitely managed to do what she set out to achieve which is to explore the human experience in the extreme context of a hypothetical alien interspecies society beyond Earth.

readmymind's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

daphnefallz's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective 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? N/A

4.5

snowbenton's review against another edition

5.0

I more or less just quietly cried throughout this whole book. It was beautiful, and I was happy there were no AI characters.