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Y’all I KNEW Nicky Drayden was gonna be a favorite! Escaping Exodus was SO GOOD. A thrilling story unfolds alongside staggeringly creative world building, in which a sliver of post-Earth humanity makes their home inside an enormous spacefaring creature, terraforming its body to meet their needs for survival and comfort. The novel’s two protagonists are young women whose feelings for each other are complicated by their very different stations within their society’s caste based matriarchy, one the
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Escaping Exodus was an interesting space opera book. The central idea was compelling that humans had colonized the inside of interstellar space “beast” after leaving Earth. Unfortunately, I found the characterization poorly done, which I think derived from using the first person narrative point-of-view while jumping between two different characters. It was not until I was about 2/3rds done with the book that I realized the author was jumping between two characters with each chapter. That speaks
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Afro-futurist inter-caste queer love story set inside a space beast. Sounds weird? It is! But it was also great writing and tons of gross exquisite world building and character development. 10/10 for cover art!
Further proof that I could Never live in Space. Never...Ever.
Too many themes and plot lines that just...stopped, with no explanation. Won't plan to read the sequel. ...more
Too many themes and plot lines that just...stopped, with no explanation. Won't plan to read the sequel. ...more
Oh man this book! It had everything - fantastic world building, strong heroines, queer representation, political intrigue, class discussions, and of course just enough weird tentacle scenes to make me worried for my sanity.
Nov 27, 2020
Juli (julireadsitall)
marked it as to-read
Nov 27, 2020
Hope
marked it as to-read
