The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, 1)

Why did I love this book so much? Oh, I wish it was easy to answer that. There are just too many answers to this question. First of all, it’s just such a non-typical scifi book. It does not concentrate on plots, plans and big angry sciencey words. (Sciencey is totally a word.) It focuses on the characters, on their development and their dynamics. It also looks many societal problems deep in the eye and shows it to all be resolvable, if not in the most popular, but perhaps the most compassionate way. And the part that I love about it the most – it’s such a feminine scifi book. Let’s start with the fact that females don’t write scifi as often as males, and therefore more often than not scifi leans into the rational, cold direction (not necessarily always a bad thing). But this is such a personal take on scifi that you can see each character come alive, live and breathe, basically. It focuses on the individual rather than the whole big picture, which tends to be the case in a lot of scifi. I don’t know what some hardcore readers would say, but for me, as a female scifi fan, this is something I’ve wanted to see in the genre for so long, and I didn’t even consciously know that THIS was what I was longing for. Other than that, let me just sum up why I loved it and why you should check it out in list form: It’s one of the most diverse books I’ve read (in general). In terms of race, LGBTQ and even general individual sentience. The things you will see here WILL expand your…

Well done, Becky! Alien descriptions were brilliant and character development quite good. Enjoyed the relationship development between them. Not tech heavy but sufficient for the story line. On occasion, the “head hopping” left me wondering who owned the dialog and some the exposition was lengthy. Still a good story with characters that I cared about. I plan to read the sequel. 😎👽🧑‍🚀 .