pickThis third book in the Children of Time series explores the meaning of sentience, identity, even reality itself. A crew seeks surviving remnants of the human diaspora on planets in various stages of the terraforming process. They encounter a race of corvids who may or may not be intelligent, and become entangled in the history of a colony ship. Not a good pick for anyone seeking a linear narrative, but absolutely fascinating.
"Thousands of years ago the humans of Earth reached out to the stars."
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pickI am so happy to have stumbled upon these books! 😍 Arguably this is the weakest of the trilogy (because it's the most human/planet-bound?) but it does have alien ravens arguing against their own sentience, so there's that.
And then the last quarter or so induced full-on existential vertigo, which delighted me no end!
We went on quite the adventure (iykyk 😆).
"And yet the birds mutter to one another in their own jabber, quote poetry that predates whole civilizations, and refuse to let her in."
Has my book just outed me as an alien raven?! ??
pickThis is my least favorite of this series. I still enjoyed. However, I felt it was a bit of stretch. My first thought when I finished was, that was weird (not in a good way). 3.5ish ⭐️
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panThe first two books of the series were SO good, and then ???? The third one just took a hard left into something unrecognizable. More fantasy than sci fi. As tedious as the day is long.
so-soAs a series, I love these books and Children of Memory was an interesting wrap-up. But as a standalone novel, this really doesn‘t live up to its predecessors - Time and Ruin.
This book starts out strong, but the ending is very weak. Even for Tchaikovsky‘s standards, this was just plain weird. In that, it did not make much sense. The author tried a little too hard with this one.
But, is this book readable? Yes.
Narration is spectacular.
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