Reviews of book: Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)

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by John Scalzi

By Singing Light rated it

14 years ago

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Proper YA sci-fi! We don’t get enough of that, so I was quite pleased. All in all, I loved Zoe’s voice and thought Scalzi did a great job of capturing her (despite never having been a teenage girl). I haven’t read any of the rest of the series, but I’ll definitely keep them in mind now. [May 2011]

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Dantastic Book Reviews rated it

14 years ago

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Zoe Boutin-Perry, teenage colonist and idol to the Obin race, gets stranded on Roanoke along with her parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan. While the Roanoke Colony survive with the Conclave breathing down its neck?Zoe's Tale is a retelling of the previous John Scalzi book, The Last Colony, from Zoe'...

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Amadan na Briona rated it

15 years ago

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I haven't read any of Scalzi's other books, so I don't know the background of the Old Man's War series and thus read this as a stand-alone novel. I enjoyed it very much as a light SF novel, somewhat reminiscent of Heinlein's juveniles. The voice of the protagonist was engaging and funny and touching...

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Books with a Beu rated it

16 years ago

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I love reading stories that tell you "other events" in an already familiar story (like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina). Since I'd read (and loved) the whole "Old Man's War" series, this was quite fun to revisit familiar territory through new eyes. It was...

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Bun's Books rated it

16 years ago

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I had the best time reading this! The narrative voice really worked for me. Zoe's was a voice that I greatly enjoyed hearing in my head. The pacing really worked for me too, the tale kept moving right along neither dumping me into thickets of endless description nor rushing through mad action sce...

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