Samie Foster’s Reviews > New Moon > Status Update

This far in I'm ready to board a rocket to leave the moon. The story's world is so unique and imaginative but I just don't want to follow these characters any more. They're essentially rich cooperate bad guys who believe they are doing good. And they are not changing for the better either. I don't think I could reach too much more about this family so removed reality.

I know this is fiction and all but the book just claimed freckles is what happens as a result of incest. I'm sorry. I think I'm going to call BS on that one. With all the the actual science that actually does weave in and out of this story nicely, I am just surprised something this silly popped up here. What are u doing Ian McDonald? Scratch that. This book is full of wtf moments he might not know himself.

Nearly 80% of the way through and this book aside from wackadoo craziness of the work in general, not much has happened other than politics.

I'm realizing I'm having the same issues with this book as I have with the cyberpunk genre. The world presented here is combo of both fascinating and horrifying. And I just struggle with the idea that society would ever move in this direction bc there is just so much wrong with it.

I'm beginning to think that this author doesn't know how love works. There's some thing very stale and distant about the relationships between every couple in the story so far.

Tonight this book decided to take break from crazy bananas scifi to flashback to an earlier part of an elderly characters life to follow a really beautiful yet tragic friendship. It's a really nice breath of fresh air to see such a simple side story take place in a such a complicated weird world.

So the this book just went into some nitty gritty and graphic detail about how a woman can love an A.I. program & I dunno how I feel about that. It's just really weird. I dunno what else to say. I'm at a loss of words after what I just read.

So there's a sport on the moon very similar to paint ball, only the paint is filled with high concentrations of drugs. So Every time someone gets hit they get a little higher. If they are hit enough to completely start hallucinating and tripping all over the place causing their team to lose. This book is so strange.

Phew! Almost didn't continue reading this last night bc it was leading up to some awful disturbing material where a very young child may fall victim to an old man with the society in this book being completely ok with it. Instead things don't go that way & it may spark a war. & I'm okay with that. If this sick stuff is some weirdo norm in this part of the world I'm ready to see it all burn when their attacked.