Martians Abroad: A Novel
by:
Carrie Vaughn (author)
Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781466886476
ASIN: B01HMMYSO2
Publish date: 2017-01-17
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
This reader's personal opinion, ©2018, all rights reserved, not to be quoted, clipped or used in any way by goodreads, Google Play, amazon.com or other commercial booksellers* I have no idea how to review this. It's a reboot of a teenage favorite (Podkayne of Mars - Robert A. Heinlein) by a fav...
Book, it’s not you, it’s me. Actually, to be honest...some of it is you. This book initially annoyed me with its conflation of mass and weight, but it was mostly just a boring new-kid-at-school young adult novel (or children's book, maybe). Most of the book is pretty dull, with the main character,...
A fun and interesting main character in a to-short fish out of water tale. This is standalone, but I'd devour another book about Polly if she does write a sequel. I'm not 100% sold on the ending, either in terms of how the plot is resolved or where we leave the protagonist, but whatever. If my big...
DNF @ 30%This is not holding my attention. I was excited to read it; the premise sounded awesome. Martians kids go to school on Earth. But, meh, it's the typical board school drama-rama, with the Earth kids and the instructors treating the off-world kids like crap. I thought the main character w...
If you would like to win a copy of this, stop by my main blog and leave a comment. --- I remember while growing up back in the 20th century that SF was fun. Maybe fun isn't the right word, but stick with me -- sure, the stories were serious, there were real stakes (usually), not every ending was hap...