The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers (4 1/2 stars)

[Cora]

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

4 1/2 stars

The Long Way to a Small and Angry Planet is a book about a team of tunnel drillers on a space ship. The crew is made up of a variety of sapient species and the story tells us about them all through a series of vignettes as they travel through space to do a job. I liked how the book really developed the characters as well as how detailed the information about each species was. Chambers really makes the reader relate to every member of the crew no matter how different they look or how different their species' culture was. The story was a somewhat laid back and relaxing journey that I appreciated after a couple of action heavy space operas. There were a couple of times I felt that the the book was going a bit slow for me, but even that was a nice change of pace. I will definitely read more in this universe.

[David]

Great review.

[Jason]

I enjoyed your review. If you like this kind of story with character development and not overwhelmed with action, have you read the Ringworld series?

[Cora]

Jason wrote: "I enjoyed your review. If you like this kind of story with character development and not overwhelmed with action, have you read the Ringworld series?"

I have not read the Ringworld series yet, but I do own a copy of the first one and hope to get to in the near future.