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cahnIn rough order of enjoyment, most to least.
Chalice (McKinley) - I like McKinley's prose enough I'll read anything she writes. I really liked the worldbuilding, the Grand Seneschal, and the bees. The Master and his story, maybe not so much. That was a little weird.
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julianyap. I liked it (though the engineer in me was screaming, "Overfitting! Overfitting!" at Colin's function for much of the book) but was totally weirded out by knowing the person who wrote the afterword, not just because I know him (which I do only vaguely) but for another reason which is clear if you know how I know him.
Matched (Condie) - The main character has green eyes. I told D that it wanted to be Brave New World, but wasn't. D said, "What about Mary Sue Saves the Brave New World?" So now that is how we refer to it. But actually it was fine once I got over wanting it to be something more than it was. However, I recommend it only if you have not read Brave New World, otherwise you'll feel a sense of disappointment. (Also, there was a hilarious moment where the narrator realizes something that is apparently a huge plot point that both my sister and I had totally dismissed as a completely obvious fact about the world.)
Winter's End (Jean-Claude Mourlevat and Anthea Bell) - Sets up a weird semi-alternate Europe that's been taken over by a totalitarian government and shows the overthrow of the government without ever explaining any of the weird semi-alternate-ness of it. A strange book, and not recommended, though minor points for not falling for the fallacy of the first lover, which are mostly canceled out by completely gratuitous character death.
Northern Light (Donnelly) - Written before Revolution, and really shows. All the historical-fic flaws of Revolution, plus an extremely cliched plot (the non-cliched plot of Revolution was one of its great strengths).
Chalice (McKinley) - I like McKinley's prose enough I'll read anything she writes. I really liked the worldbuilding, the Grand Seneschal, and the bees. The Master and his story, maybe not so much. That was a little weird.
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julianyap. I liked it (though the engineer in me was screaming, "Overfitting! Overfitting!" at Colin's function for much of the book) but was totally weirded out by knowing the person who wrote the afterword, not just because I know him (which I do only vaguely) but for another reason which is clear if you know how I know him.Matched (Condie) - The main character has green eyes. I told D that it wanted to be Brave New World, but wasn't. D said, "What about Mary Sue Saves the Brave New World?" So now that is how we refer to it. But actually it was fine once I got over wanting it to be something more than it was. However, I recommend it only if you have not read Brave New World, otherwise you'll feel a sense of disappointment. (Also, there was a hilarious moment where the narrator realizes something that is apparently a huge plot point that both my sister and I had totally dismissed as a completely obvious fact about the world.)
Winter's End (Jean-Claude Mourlevat and Anthea Bell) - Sets up a weird semi-alternate Europe that's been taken over by a totalitarian government and shows the overthrow of the government without ever explaining any of the weird semi-alternate-ness of it. A strange book, and not recommended, though minor points for not falling for the fallacy of the first lover, which are mostly canceled out by completely gratuitous character death.
Northern Light (Donnelly) - Written before Revolution, and really shows. All the historical-fic flaws of Revolution, plus an extremely cliched plot (the non-cliched plot of Revolution was one of its great strengths).
