![]() ![]() Because of this I felt disconnected from the very beginning. ![]() What’s more, the reader may know, but the characters don’t, which was a classic case of dramatic irony – where the audience is aware of what’s going on, so they feel a couple of steps removed from the drama… and then the characters take forever to figure things out. The reader ventures in with a pretty good idea of what’s going on already, so right there the sense of discovery I crave in books was mitigated. ![]() Nothing worked for me.įirst of all, the basic title and premise give away a lot about what to expect in the story itself. Not the characters, not the story, not the trajectory, and most particularly not the execution. ![]() Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape–trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Forced to land on a planet they aren’t prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet’s sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools. The Overview: In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance. ![]()
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