enne📚 reviewed The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #7)
The Shattering Peace
3 stars
Classic Scalzi popcorn, spiced with snark.
It's a solid book, don't get me wrong. Good foreshadowing and callbacks. Good worldbuilding for the series and setup for future books. The plot was grippy in the moment.
My biggest disappointment is that protagonist's defining characteristic is that she's naught more than a hypercompetent ball of snark; it makes her uninteresting, and it felt like we were told more about her emotions from her father than we got shown ourselves.
Classic Scalzi popcorn, spiced with snark.
It's a solid book, don't get me wrong. Good foreshadowing and callbacks. Good worldbuilding for the series and setup for future books. The plot was grippy in the moment.
My biggest disappointment is that protagonist's defining characteristic is that she's naught more than a hypercompetent ball of snark; it makes her uninteresting, and it felt like we were told more about her emotions from her father than we got shown ourselves.