A review by roseybot
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
4.0
Found the old review on a different edition, just adding them together:
Dany and I basically loved this book.
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So, I know I reviewed this before, but apparently it's not showing up. Weird, it's on Robots Read if anyone wants to check it out.
I remember loving this book, which is not an encouraging way to start a second review, but bear with me. Because I still really really like it. And I think it is important to note that I do in fact still like this book on a re-read.
Because I'm about to get a little down on it.
So, the thing is, when I read this book, the second one was already out, and I was feeling positive about Firefly still (cause we didn't know the deep dark hole of blackness that is Joss Whedon actually went even deeper), and so I thought, fairly reasonably, that the second book would be about the same characters. It was not.
And that changed the way I read the characters this time -- they aren't terribly three dimensional when you realize that she's not going to keep writing about them. I seem to have thought that there was going to be more, and was therefore willing to wait, but for a 508 page book, I feel like I knew the characters only barely by the end. And that's kind of sad.
But that was my only complaint. I still liked the characters, but they weren't totally all there. And I wish they had been.
Dany and I basically loved this book.
___
So, I know I reviewed this before, but apparently it's not showing up. Weird, it's on Robots Read if anyone wants to check it out.
I remember loving this book, which is not an encouraging way to start a second review, but bear with me. Because I still really really like it. And I think it is important to note that I do in fact still like this book on a re-read.
Because I'm about to get a little down on it.
So, the thing is, when I read this book, the second one was already out, and I was feeling positive about Firefly still (cause we didn't know the deep dark hole of blackness that is Joss Whedon actually went even deeper), and so I thought, fairly reasonably, that the second book would be about the same characters. It was not.
And that changed the way I read the characters this time -- they aren't terribly three dimensional when you realize that she's not going to keep writing about them. I seem to have thought that there was going to be more, and was therefore willing to wait, but for a 508 page book, I feel like I knew the characters only barely by the end. And that's kind of sad.
But that was my only complaint. I still liked the characters, but they weren't totally all there. And I wish they had been.