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A review by ihateprozac
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.0
This had a lot of elements I should love: queer and trans rep, multiverse/parallel worlds, diverging evolutionary branches.... but something about it just never really grabbed me. I wasn't terribly invested in any of the characters - and boy, are there a lot - and often it read like a very tedious textbook.
It often feels like a hodge podge of existing sci-fi tropes and titles (hell, there's even a conscious reference to Jurassic Park) but lacks the heart of any of those titles. There were genius science-y moments that I wish had spanned more of the story (helloooo, but instead we got bogged down in the minutiae of conversation between 20 characters I didn't give a shit about.
Perhaps Tchaikovsky just isn't for me.
It often feels like a hodge podge of existing sci-fi tropes and titles (hell, there's even a conscious reference to Jurassic Park) but lacks the heart of any of those titles. There were genius science-y moments that I wish had spanned more of the story (helloooo
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space whale thing and an ice queen living in the matrix?!!Perhaps Tchaikovsky just isn't for me.