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The Best Sapphic Story To date.

Revisado: 06-27-24

The only complaint that I have is that the author has only this one beautiful title to her name thus far. The Science Fiction tends more towards what I would classify as "Science Fantasy", but that's honestly more of a semantic difference. The story starts out with a fantastic premise, and throughout the story you get to know each of the cute characters, and none of them feel like they were "well I need out the LGBTQIA+ Roster ... I'll just throw them in here...", The limited cast helps to honestly build up specificity and helps make the reader truly feel involved in every moment and feel like they want to see what they do, how they go about their lives and what they like, dislike, etc. The author does play to the reader expectation, setting out "here's some ideas for who the Big bad is" "Here's what happened to them" and ending with "oh yeah no, if you didn't figure it out by the end of the story? Well it becomes very obvious, but if you figured it out before? You get to feel clever!" The romance and building of the two intimate romantic plots is fantastic, it never feels forced, it never feels like it's rushed, it feels like "oh I'm watching these friends go from just adorable friends, and build up to something more" save for the "pre-existing relationship" which was handled just as expertly of two people who seemed to be not quite "head over heels" but definitely in that "I'm comfortable with my partner and I love them." The friendships were also beautiful to see and I definitely want to see more of the characters, or even just "here's some more fun fantasy stuff that's set up in the world, let's see other characters." There was an interesting vocal quirk with Vico Ortiz about the word Montage, it didn't pull me out of the story and in fact I found it kind of endearing to hear the vocal quirk. End of the day if you're looking for a definitely Sapphic story, with a lot of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum involved, Hands down. I cannot recommend this any more highly, I hope that Emily Hamilton Makes many more delightful books, and makes more stuff, because if this is any sense of what they can provide, it makes me if nobody else, highly curious and want to see more.

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Absolutely fantastic big mecha and sci-fi book

Revisado: 02-26-24

it was a trip to the old sci-fi books I used to read as a kid, the story built up at a perfect pace nothing seemed "too over the top" there certainly was a lot of over the top but it never felt like it was disengaging from the story, the characters felt lively and even the mecha seemed real. would recommend to friends and have done so

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another fantastic entry

Revisado: 12-12-22

what to say, I wow, this was another fantastic entry and the way he pulls it together is magical. I look forward to the next entry.

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it is totally worth the read.

Revisado: 12-07-22

it was fantastic I honestly at several points thought he was playing a very long con with the joke. nope he delivered beautifully. I look forward to the rest.

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gripping

Revisado: 08-11-22

it was oddly gripping a painfully slow start, but by the end? wow. I didn't know what I was expecting initially to be entirely fair, I thought it'd be goofy and not gripping nor good, instead? I was utterly surprised by every time the story pulled a fascinating turn it was never a "wait hold on that doesn't make sense" it was "oh huh ... I should have seen that coming"

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it isn't bad ... but.

Revisado: 11-26-20

the narrator is fantastic. however, my biggest gripe with the story was it seemed to be a lot of "well I need to change this character significantly... eh hand wave and BAM instant growth" I honestly wish the "high four", weren't the mc's honestly they had their arc, getting to see them again and how they've "grown" up was kind of neat. but it seemed like "hey I need to give these characters another arc ..but not really?" the representation was sometimes awkward. the purposeful callouts of prior lit were ..heavy handed. honestly if there's a "ready player three" I'd suggest throw out wade, Sam, Aech, and Shoto, go forward with honestly other characters give the "low five" some love. they were HORRIBLY under used.

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