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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

Becky Chambers

Start date: August 8, 2019

Finish date: August 16, 2019

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Feb 26, 2018 Diana Stormblessed rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018-read, sci-fi, series

Cute. That's how I would describe this series. Cute. But not interesting. There's no conflict. No draw to keep reading. The characters are flat and you know everything will turn out hunky dory. A meh read at best. ...more

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Feb 25, 2018 Sara J. (kefuwa) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Buddy read with: Fantasy Buddy Read Group, as well as @Tanged & @AllWeatherReader on #bookstagram!

Wow, that was another fast read.

As much as I wanted to get back to the Wayfarer - this book just pulled me in. Very interesting character back stories and interesting perspectives to consider.

Good storytelling despite the way it seems a bit convenient in the end and also that all everyone seems to want to do is party. My idea of a party is a night in with take out and the soundtrack of one of the l ...more

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Aug 30, 2019 Rob rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I just enjoy the tone of Becky Chamber's books and was happy to join Sidra's journey to discover her identity and become the type of being she wanted to be. However, I'm hoping these characters will join up again with the characters from the first book for a more externally based journey . ...more

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Mar 03, 2018 Sha rated it it was amazing

"Personal Chromatophore Management" is my new favourite phrase.

This book somehow ended up being better than The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, which was a delight on its' own. I am definitely reading more of whatever Becky Chambers writes. ...more

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Oct 21, 2024 Amyiw rated it it was amazing

Shelves: x-2024, scifi, od, series, fantasy, audio

This was so much better than the first book and I'm glad that I continued. I found the first book to not have a real direction and to be much a compilation of stories with many different characters, with about a story per main member of the ship. It was way too many characters with so many was of addressing them that it got too much. Along with that there was no direction in plot, no over arc.
This one definitely had a overarc and a storyline of the overlapping two characters, Sidra and Pepper. ...more

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Dec 18, 2021 Rachel rated it liked it

Not as interesting as the first, I kept hoping the Wayfarer’s crew would show up in the story. The parallel story lines were interesting, but I never caught the explanation as to the connection. Names changed to confuse the reader, I guess.

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