Dark Nest won the Prism award, and I can't find anything but glowing reviews of it online, but I had one problem with the story, and that was that by the time this story is told, I feel like I have to catch up to where the characters already are, and so things seem to happen too quickly and the ending came too soon. When Ariadne's ex, Kristov, dies, at the beginning of the book, Ariadne is surprised to hear he was murdered, possibly through the order of the Homeworld because of his rebellious views. Much has already happened by the time that Kristov Hadyn dies, and the reader learns through Ariadne how far things have gone. The romance mostly happens off the page as well.
The conflict in this story instead lies with the two types of Nesters and their Homeworld (What exactly is the Homeworld's plan for the Nesters? Is it true that they used brainwashing and lies to divide the two ships?) but that too seemed quickly resolved: the rebels have a plan. I thought the writing and the setting were well done, but if I could wish for something, it would be more in terms of not learning things after they were already established like the romance, the plans for the rebellion, and the insidious workings of the Homeworld; I'd rather read about them as they happened.
Overall: I liked the writing and I liked the setting, but I wish there was more. This is a novella so by it's very definition it's short, but I think I still wanted to experience events as they unfolded, rather than feeling like I was getting the wrap up of a longer and meatier story.
My full review: http://janicu.livejournal.com/95650.html
The conflict in this story instead lies with the two types of Nesters and their Homeworld (What exactly is the Homeworld's plan for the Nesters? Is it true that they used brainwashing and lies to divide the two ships?) but that too seemed quickly resolved: the rebels have a plan. I thought the writing and the setting were well done, but if I could wish for something, it would be more in terms of not learning things after they were already established like the romance, the plans for the rebellion, and the insidious workings of the Homeworld; I'd rather read about them as they happened.
Overall: I liked the writing and I liked the setting, but I wish there was more. This is a novella so by it's very definition it's short, but I think I still wanted to experience events as they unfolded, rather than feeling like I was getting the wrap up of a longer and meatier story.
My full review: http://janicu.livejournal.com/95650.html
