A review by melbsreads
Viral Airwaves by Claudie Arseneault
3.0
Trigger warnings: violence, death, explosions, war, torture.
This was...a slightly peculiar book. I bought it literally years ago when I read that it featured asexual representation and it was Own Voices, and then I promptly forgot all about it. Until now.
I really loved the idea of this - it's described as solarpunk - but ultimately this was just LONG. There were a lot of narrators, and their voices felt a little too similar at times. I also felt like there wasn't quiiiiite enough worldbuilding in favour of action at the beginning of the story and then I spent the rest of this nearly 500 page book wondering why the hell the world was the way it was.
So...I liked it. I liked the representation. But it was at least a hundred (and fifty) pages too long, and there was way more in here about noodles than I anticipated. Like, WAY more.
This was...a slightly peculiar book. I bought it literally years ago when I read that it featured asexual representation and it was Own Voices, and then I promptly forgot all about it. Until now.
I really loved the idea of this - it's described as solarpunk - but ultimately this was just LONG. There were a lot of narrators, and their voices felt a little too similar at times. I also felt like there wasn't quiiiiite enough worldbuilding in favour of action at the beginning of the story and then I spent the rest of this nearly 500 page book wondering why the hell the world was the way it was.
So...I liked it. I liked the representation. But it was at least a hundred (and fifty) pages too long, and there was way more in here about noodles than I anticipated. Like, WAY more.