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****Just a fair warning, this review will contain spoilers!***** Thank you to Net-Galley for sending me an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! Aetherbound is a YA adventure novel that takes place in the dark depths of space. Space is all our main character, Pendt Harland, has ever known. Seen by the rest of her family as useless, she fights hard to earn every breath of oxygen she can. The only thing Pendt has known is survival and the Harland, and she leaves it all behin...
I would not recommend this novel to people. To be quite honest, it confused me and even made me uncomfortable a few times. The premise immediately set me on the edge of my seat, and I was very excited to try a E. K. Johnson title for the first time. It promised me takeovers and gene mutations, but honestly all I got was a few shapeshifting moments and the brothers already running the station. Even when the Harland comes back to stir up trouble, their presence means nothing because they are easil...
Enjoyment: 1/5Execution: 1.5/5Final rating: 1.25/5This was a really cool and interesting premise but it ended up being such a drag to read. While there is a content warning at the beginning for the calorie counting (which was its own weird thing), there are definitely other significant ones to be considered, and I was unpleasantly surprised by the excessive abuse Pendt suffers in the beginning of the book. Pendt and the twins are all very dull and it was hard to feel invested in any of them or t...
EK Johnston is very good at what she does, and what she does is write soft books with iron backbones of strength, populate them with impossibly wonderful characters who are similarly made up of softness and strength, and fill in the gaps with cleverness and hope. From the unquestioned queer rep to the fascinating magic, from the deep digs into abuse and the value of human life to the importance laid on choosing your family, this book touched on all my favorite things. Aetherbound is practically
I could write a long screed about why this book isn't very good, but who has the time? Let me summarize: this is a short book that's high on the exposition that doesn't really remember to have a plot until 80% of the way through. When it comes, the plot is laughable, dealt with by the first plan that the heroes come up with and with no twists at all and not even any clever ideas from either side of the issue. And even then, the resolution is stupid, because what's at risk is priceless beyond all...
The story of Percival and The Fisher King IN SPAAAAAAAACE! Trust Kate to take this simple legend, nearly a parable, and turn it into this wildly creative gem of a sci fi novel, full of cool space stuff, found family, and beautiful friendships. Also: kissing. And of course: cheese.
This was horrible. I love sci fi, I love dark fantasy, but this ain’t it. Tons of issues right off the get go and reading reviews, it only got worse. There’s a reason there’s so many low ratings and many DNF. It’s like the author took the horrible treatment that Harry Potter received and upped it up a notch. Main character gets punished for minor things, being put in darkness and isolation, is told she’s useless after spending the first pages of the book emphasizing there’s always work to be don...
After reading E. K. Johnston’s Star Wars book Ahsoka, I was really excited to delve into another young adult space story by Johnston. I am not sure if what I was given by NetGalley was a really rough draft, but this story unfortunately read like an unfinished draft. The book is about a young girl named Pendt Harland who lives on her family’s spaceship in which she is despised by her entire family. Pendt, eager to escape her fate of forced insemination, manages to secretly leave her family’s ship...
1.5*s. This is not a good book BUT I did finish it in two days so I have to give it some credit. That said, that probably says more about the kind of mood I was in than about the book.Pendt has spent her whole life on a ship, travelling with her family between trading posts. Space is tight, food is tighter and love is a foreign concept. Her brothers and her cousins are deemed useful, their magical affinities for electricity or maths helping to maintain ship. Pendt's ability to manipulate genes,
I'm just going to start with the thing I found so ridiculous about this book that I had to tell everyone about it.There is a "Content Warning" on this book. That's great. I think it's nice that authors and publishers are trying to be sensitive to folks. The "Content Warning" was for "medical violence" and "calorie counting." I thought that a little weird, "calorie counting," but whatevs. By the end, though I found that whole Content Warning laughably idiotic. They chose to include a warning for
