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Yes, I cried a little in the book! That's what I do people! Don't judge me! Lol, it was a good cry though =) I loved the first book and I loved this one too. Holy crow! This book starts off when Pepper and Lovey leave the Wayfarer together. Lovey is in an AI body and is not real happy because that's a lot to get used to when your used to being an AI of a ship and not in a teeny tiny person body! This book goes back and forth from when Pepper was a little girl to tell her story and the present wi...
A beautifully compassionate, intimate portrait of the inner lives of a small group of keenly-drawn characters as they navigate their way through their lives and find a way to connect and survive and thrive even after trauma and heartbreak. That description isn’t often likely to refer to a science fiction novel, but it’s to Becky Chambers’ great credit that it works all the better because it’s a science fiction novel, allowing her to delve deeply into questions of autonomy, consciousness, cultura...
I absolutely adore Becky Chambers’ brand on optimistic science fiction. It is filled with wide-eyed, immersive, positive energy and I LOVE that. I love how inclusive her imagination is and how thoroughly thought out her world is. The aliens feel exactly that: alien. They are different not just in the way they look but in the way they think and behave and in the way their societies are structured. But still, the different races exist more or less peacefully and most people we meet along the way d...
Hmmmmm. I really don't know how to write this review, because I really don't know how I feel about it. Was it what I expected? No. Was the story developed how I would have hoped? No. Where the characters developed? Yes. Did I enjoy it? *Slight pause.. Yes.Ok, so if you have read other reviews, you will know this book is broken into 2 stories. Pepper as Jayne 26 and her early years and Pepper and Lovelace the AI and body kit from the first book. The young Jayne story was good, I enjoyed reading a...
"The planet was beautiful. The planet was horrible. The planet was full of people, and they were beautiful and horrible too." I enjoyed this visit back into Becky Chambers' wonderfully optimistic science fiction, but it wasn't quite up there with The Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetWe don't join the crew from the previous book, but instead we pick up with two of the minor characters mentioned - Lovelace and Pepper. The ending of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet was pretty dramatic - and t
A wonderful sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, this tells the ongoing story of Lovelace. She is the only character from the first book who plays a real part in this one but that does not matter because both books are so good in their own right.Lovelace quickly becomes Sidra and the story follows her progress as she attempts to act like a human and play down her characteristics as an artificial intelligence system. Sounds weird? I promise it is not. The author has a talent for makin...
I think I liked this stand-alone followup to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet even more than the first. The cast is much smaller, but because of this the reader is let in much more closely to a few unique lives - the AI formerly known as Lovey as she adjusts to living within a bodily form, and a small child named Jane who repairs scrap for robots. There are many comments about humanity and identity, destruction of natural environments, autonomy, and friendship.
Feel good fiction at its best. I enjoy the world she has created and the characters too.
4ish stars.Just as cute as the first book but with its own emotional depth, this goes further into exploring some interesting themes giving it a greater, more focused sense of purpose than TLWTASAP (whoa that's an intense acronym). Even more so than the first book, there's not much excitement. There are no villains. It's the opposite of a nail-biter. It's more of a coming-of-age novel with a few existential crises thrown in.It's cute in the same way a lullaby is cute. It's not saccharine, gag-in...
“When I see the ocean, I feel calm. It makes me want to’ – to keep eating candy – ‘to keep going. To keep trying new things. To keep living.” An engaging and beautifully written slice of life dive in Becky Chambers’ world of complex characters and newly imagined relationships between space faring species! I somehow feel like I should begin this review of Becky Chambers’ A Closed and Common Orbit with provisos even though I really enjoyed it. I went into this second book in the Wayfarer Series kn...
