A review by lautir
Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie
2.0
I'm having a hard time rating this one since YA scifi is so rare.
The setup is solid and fairly typical, the writing isn't anything fancy. But it moves along quickly which I appreciated. I was mostly interested in picking up what differentiates it from general scifi vs YA scifi, and it seems to just be a simplification of the world and mechanics. There were so many bigger issues that could have been addressed given the makeup of the Scela (AI + mechanically enhanced human soldiers) but it wasn't really touched on.
Also the ending climatic sequence didn't make any sense which did kind of ruin things for me.
So fine overall, would be a good intro to scifi book for a younger audience.
The setup is solid and fairly typical, the writing isn't anything fancy. But it moves along quickly which I appreciated. I was mostly interested in picking up what differentiates it from general scifi vs YA scifi, and it seems to just be a simplification of the world and mechanics. There were so many bigger issues that could have been addressed given the makeup of the Scela (AI + mechanically enhanced human soldiers) but it wasn't really touched on.
Also the ending climatic sequence didn't make any sense which did kind of ruin things for me.
So fine overall, would be a good intro to scifi book for a younger audience.