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I am being generous. I trudged through this.
I so wanted to love this. I gave it many, many chances. For weeks, I would read 10 pages a day during my lunch break, telling myself it'll get good if I just keep going.
It got good (barely), just never great. The strongest part of the story was Estraven and Ai's relationship and it came too little too late. The world building, the lengthy descriptions of snow and ice just weren't interesting to me.
I tried too hard to find meaning in it too. My pen was ...more
I so wanted to love this. I gave it many, many chances. For weeks, I would read 10 pages a day during my lunch break, telling myself it'll get good if I just keep going.
It got good (barely), just never great. The strongest part of the story was Estraven and Ai's relationship and it came too little too late. The world building, the lengthy descriptions of snow and ice just weren't interesting to me.
I tried too hard to find meaning in it too. My pen was ...more
Excellent study on prejudice and societies, with a science fiction twist.
Mar 03, 2018
Sarah
rated it
really liked it
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The story of an envoy who finds himself on an unexpected journey with an unexpected friend. This is not a page turner, but a slow read. The genderlessness of the “mankind” on the new planet is an interesting thread. Politics also.
May 26, 2012
Xiri
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
horror,
science-fiction,
fantasy,
classics,
shapeshifters,
sf-f-challenge,
mystery,
coursera-f-sf,
poetry,
hainish-cycle
