I do have a lot of respect for Bear as an author, I think she is incredibly talented and imaginative. I just don’t want to deal with it or think about it for any period of time. It’s a hard pass for me in tv, in movies. When the full truth of Haimey’s identity is realized, she remembers that when the clade is caught, instead of allowing themselves to be separated and reconned themselves, they kill each other, and all the children. When Haimey remembers what actually happened she finds out her clade was basically a terrorist cult (I mean all cults are terrorists of a kind, but I’m referring specifically to the suicide bomber sort.) (Again, major spoilers ahead.) I quit reading because at some point the person holding Haimey convinces her to let her unblock memories that were “reconned,” (buried/blocked/written over). I mean- it’s by no means my kind of book no matter how you look at that, and I was bored to tears, but even that was not why I quit reading. It’s five hundred pages of mostly inner monologue: Haimey suffering anxiety from past trauma, second guessing herself every step of the way, and auto-tuning her brain chemicals as a form of medical treatment. Turn back now if you don’t want spoilers because I can’t explain why I’m not finishing this without them. This is the character study of a woman who was raised in a cult (called clade in the book). There are twists and turns, but they are not the kind you’re thinking. Maybe a cat and mouse game, maybe some subterfuge. In the full blurb, I saw space salvage and space pirates and expected a thrilling action filled plot. I’m putting the content warnings up here in case you don’t want to read my spoiler laden review: suicide bombings, death of partners, abduction, references to a hive mind/cult, murder of children.
I made it to 70% and I didn’t even have the desire to skip to the end and see how it played out. I only put in what I felt was actually relevant to the book.
Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants.Īdmittedly- I left out a lot of that blurb (you can read the whole blurb in the link above).
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