justagirl

Did not enjoy this book

Revisado: 05-13-24

I had a really hard time staying focused on this book. I don't know if it's the long, boring passages or the narrator's relaxing voice, but I constantly found myself thinking about something else entirely. This book just couldn't keep my attention. The entire first chapter is basically irrelevant to the rest of the story. It does, unfortunately, set the stage for what the rest of the book will be like. He spends no less than an hour describing the character walking across a moon in a mech suit. That sounds fine in theory, but it's really nothing more than drawn-out descriptions of terrain mixed in with philosophical musings that I couldn't keep focused on. You could literally skip the first chapter and not miss anything important for the rest of the book. I keep seeing people online saying this is the author's best work, and that they thought it was so inspired and interesting. There are certainly some good ideas, but I had a difficult time getting over the truly awful choices the characters keep making once they arrive at their destination. These are supposed to be people from a unified planet, the smartest in their fields, and they just keep making one truly bad choice after another, with no real voice of reason to try to talk them down. They enact plans without any thought given to what might happen if something goes wrong or changes. They make huge leaps of logic and then act like they've thought things through. When it inevitably goes badly, they don't stop and think before the next bad decision, they just plow ahead, consequences be damned. It feels like the author keeps putting them in situations where they can either take a level-headed, thoughtful approach, or make assumptions and act immediately on them. They always do the latter. I just can't recommend this book.

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