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Zoe's Tale
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
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How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did how I did what I had to do not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.
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Robotswithpersonality
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
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Mehso-so

Having enjoyed the charming Acknowledgements, I now know that the questions raised by the last book for me, (and apparently many other readers!) were not addressed in tandem because the author wasn't sure they required answering and was worried about length. Having read The Last Colony and now Zoe's Tale, I can say I would have preferred if they were a singular, bulkier book. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? While there are some surprises involved in seeing the story from Zoe's POV, new plot points are not offered until after the 300 page mark, outside of a few moments that are important to Zoe's character development, not necessarily the overall plot. 12mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? If Zoe is a character that reappears in the series, it would be worth knowing all that's happened, but if you want to skip The Last Colony rehash, I feel like you could just read the last 100 pages of Zoe's Tale for fresh material. I sincerely hope that Zoe is a character we get to follow in a unique story in this series because I feel like where it ended, I'm just starting to get to know her. 12mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? For a teenager, she is breathtakingly self-assured and competent, and while John Perry and Jane Sagan are also impressive individuals met in earlier books, I felt close to them because of the vulnerabilities and flaws the reader becomes acquainted with. 12mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 If you love Scalzi's writing as I do, it's still a fun time. Maybe I'm just biased by the fact that I read the last book recently, but I worry that other readers might feel this entry in the series is more plot than characters, and familiar plot at that. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 12mo
GondorGirl My partner had the same complaint about this book (he recently finished the series). 12mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Say it with haiku. 😆 Love is worth the risk of being cubed.

julesG 😂😂😂 12mo
julesG And, you're posts still aren't helping erode #MountTBR 12mo
Robotswithpersonality @julesG All part of my evil plan! 12mo
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LeticiaToraci
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
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I like Zoe's POV here.

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sebrittainclark
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
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#LetterZ the two books beginning with Z I've read:

Zombiecorns by John Green
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

#AlphabetGame @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks for playing!! 2y
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Pedrocamacho
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This book expands upon a character and a few events from the “The Last Colony”. I‘m glad that Scalzi expanded on the Zoe character. She was worth it.

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Lauredhel
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
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TFW... You only have J, K, Q, X, and Z to go in your 2020 #litsyatoz challenge, and you realise you are up to Zoe's Tale in the Old Man's War series.

Books I am considering for the others :
- The January Stars, Jane Unlimited, Jewel in the North
- Karen Memory, Know My Name, The Killing Moon, Not One Girl Two
- A Question of Blood, Quite a Year for Plums
- Exhalation, The Poet X

runswithscissors007 How can you not read a book titled Quite a year for plums?! 4y
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howjessicareads
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
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Pickpick

At first I thought this would be boring, bc it‘s the same plot as the last book - The Last Colony - just told from the teenage daughter‘s perspective instead of the parents‘.

I should‘ve trusted Scalzi - after a bit of a slow start, it was fascinating. Gotta love a book that makes you laugh AND cry! #jesshowreads2018

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Audiobookhead
Zoe's Tale | John Scalzi
Mehso-so

This one took along time to get really going, 16 chapters in fact. Once I got through that I really enjoyed it. The felt the ending was very touching.

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Just started this one today! Looking forward to listening this while playing my new Xcom 2 game after everyone goes to sleep this week.