A review by lindzey
Kangaroo Too by Curtis C. Chen
2.0
I read this over the weekend, and by the end didn't care particularly much about the characters.
The story in this one was that Kangaroo's surgical officer's half-sister (who use to be his doctor, before he objected to being drugged, and she was send to the moon) had cloned him in an attempt to duplicate his superpower.
The action felt like a series of somewhat random events, rather than the "well of course that makes sense" arc of my favorite books. Some of the characters were fun and well-drawn, but they did have a tendency to just pop up and do what was needed for the action. I'm also unreasonably piqued about the "holding breath in hard vacuum" thing - I *swear* that in the previous book the author got it right and said that the pressure differential would cause lungs to rupture.
The story in this one was that Kangaroo's surgical officer's half-sister (who use to be his doctor, before he objected to being drugged, and she was send to the moon) had cloned him in an attempt to duplicate his superpower.
The action felt like a series of somewhat random events, rather than the "well of course that makes sense" arc of my favorite books. Some of the characters were fun and well-drawn, but they did have a tendency to just pop up and do what was needed for the action. I'm also unreasonably piqued about the "holding breath in hard vacuum" thing - I *swear* that in the previous book the author got it right and said that the pressure differential would cause lungs to rupture.