The Ice Owl
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781612421117
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Phoenix Pick
Pages no: 46
Edition language: English
(Read as part of Nebula Showcase 2013)Sets up a very nicely done world and situation: a rebellious teenage girl and her flaky, irresponsible mother, flitting around known planets at lightspeed after a political disturbance/genocide analogous to the Holocaust. (It's called the Holocide, and there's e...
I liked the protagonist's voice--she came across as authentically teenaged--but otherwise there's not much to recommend here. The writing is clumsy and the plot incoherent, full of both loose ends that never come together and anvilicious reveals. And the ending actively angered me. No, it is not the...