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juushikaTitle: All the Birds in the Sky
Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Published: New York: Tor, 2016
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 430
Total Page Count: 188,040
Text Number: 552
Read Because: personal enjoyment, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Patricia is a budding witch, Laurence is building a supercomputer in his closet, and in the midst of their lifelong friendship magic and science threaten to create an apocalypse. The first third takes place in middle school, where both characters are victims of bullying and abuse, and is simply awful to read; the middle third is a routine but emotional 20-something coming of age, and the final third is the apocalypse plot. So if that first third seems endless: hold on, it gets better. But the entire book has an exaggerated, self-deprecatory, hipster, comic vibe, with sentences. Written. Like this.—and that style is unremitting, and I detest it. (Readers with different taste will have better luck.) I'd read in other reviews that All the Birds in the Sky is an interesting crossover between fantasy and science fiction, but, while it's an engaging premise and the end is a satisfying combines of both influences, there isn't enough meta- and genre-commentary for me. This wasn't to my tastes, nor did it reward my persistence—so I can't recommend it.
Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Published: New York: Tor, 2016
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 430
Total Page Count: 188,040
Text Number: 552
Read Because: personal enjoyment, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Patricia is a budding witch, Laurence is building a supercomputer in his closet, and in the midst of their lifelong friendship magic and science threaten to create an apocalypse. The first third takes place in middle school, where both characters are victims of bullying and abuse, and is simply awful to read; the middle third is a routine but emotional 20-something coming of age, and the final third is the apocalypse plot. So if that first third seems endless: hold on, it gets better. But the entire book has an exaggerated, self-deprecatory, hipster, comic vibe, with sentences. Written. Like this.—and that style is unremitting, and I detest it. (Readers with different taste will have better luck.) I'd read in other reviews that All the Birds in the Sky is an interesting crossover between fantasy and science fiction, but, while it's an engaging premise and the end is a satisfying combines of both influences, there isn't enough meta- and genre-commentary for me. This wasn't to my tastes, nor did it reward my persistence—so I can't recommend it.
