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Malinda Lo, Adaptation
Oct. 18th, 2012 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorotheanHas anyone else read this yet? Comment if so, pretty please! I'd love to hear the thoughts of someone who is better qualified to discuss this kind of book -- YA near-future science fiction of the teenage-protagonist-gets-involved-in-a-massive-conspiracy variety is just not my cup of tea.
Appealing to me: the heroine, Reese is (as per usual, I understand) torn between two love interests who symbolize conflicting forces in her life, but in this case one love interest is a boy and one is a girl.
I also liked Reese's relationship with her mother, and the way Lo describes the physical and psychological effects of the thing that happens to Reese at the beginning of the story.
But I didn't get much else out of it -- conspiracy theories set my teeth on edge and if my science fiction is going to have science-fictional biology, I want a much more detailed explanation.
(Note: if you're the sort of reader who wants to wait for a series to be completely published before reading any of it, definitely wait to read Adaptation -- the story doesn't end with this book and it's clear that there's much more to be told in the sequel, which is supposed to come out next fall.)
Appealing to me: the heroine, Reese is (as per usual, I understand) torn between two love interests who symbolize conflicting forces in her life, but in this case one love interest is a boy and one is a girl.
I also liked Reese's relationship with her mother, and the way Lo describes the physical and psychological effects of the thing that happens to Reese at the beginning of the story.
But I didn't get much else out of it -- conspiracy theories set my teeth on edge and if my science fiction is going to have science-fictional biology, I want a much more detailed explanation.
(Note: if you're the sort of reader who wants to wait for a series to be completely published before reading any of it, definitely wait to read Adaptation -- the story doesn't end with this book and it's clear that there's much more to be told in the sequel, which is supposed to come out next fall.)
