Lori
This book has the same failings for me as the first book. How can I care what happens to this colony when the main character doesn’t. His unbothered personality is hard to build a survival story around. Thinking back on the plot of this book I would say that more happens in this book than the last. The author takes time to build the creeper societies’ and there are lots of interactions between different characters.
Why this book is rated lower than the last one is because the is no growth or development of the characters two years after the last book takes place. The side characters almost seem lesser in this one as well. They are there but more as filler to Mickey’s story. Mickey himself is so unbothered by once being an expendable, but when he is forced to think about becoming an expendable again, his only thoughts on it are that he doesn’t want to do it. That’s it…
Its written too simply and carefree for me to enjoy.
This book has the same failings for me as the first book. How can I care what happens to this colony when the main character doesn’t. His unbothered personality is hard to build a survival story around. Thinking back on the plot of this book I would say that more happens in this book than the last. The author takes time to build the creeper societies’ and there are lots of interactions between different characters.
Why this book is rated lower than the last one is because the is no growth or development of the characters two years after the last book takes place. The side characters almost seem lesser in this one as well. They are there but more as filler to Mickey’s story. Mickey himself is so unbothered by once being an expendable, but when he is forced to think about becoming an expendable again, his only thoughts on it are that he doesn’t want to do it. That’s it…
Its written too simply and carefree for me to enjoy.