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I'm still not entirely sure what to make of Starglass. It's a strange quiet book about a sad girl in a sad stifling world. The gray mood of the story can be overwhelming at times. I don't think I ever felt particularly excited about what I was reading, but I appreciated it nonetheless.

I appreciate that Phoebe North didn't want to tell the typical rebellion against authority story. She didn't want to create the typical beautiful girl who doesn't know she's beautiful character. And she certainly didn't want to tell the usual love story. This book boxes its hero, Terra, into a corner until she has no choice but to break out of the box entirely.

Terra is deeply real and deeply relatable, as are many of the other characters, and the setting is an innovative take on a generation ship. North certainly did her research, there was never moment where I thought, "Well, THAT wouldn't happen." Maybe Starglass is a little too real. Terra doesn't get to save the day, she doesn't woo the boy of her dreams, she loses the biggest parts of her life tragically and painfully, and even though she proves herself a good friend in the end, she makes some terrible missteps along the way. I sympathized with this girl, and I wanted to be there for her journey, even if it wasn't the most enjoyable trip to ride shotgun on.

I can definitely see Terra becoming a stronger person in the next book, and I am very much looking forward to that. Starglass is worth the read, if anything for its fresh take on a futuristic post-apocalyptic society, and its honest treatment of its teenage characters. The writing is lovely and evocative, everything about this feels touchable. It could have just been a little...warmer, maybe is the word I'm looking for. It was at the end when Terra really started to get focus, when she finally began to define what she wanted and how to get it, that I felt the story was moving towards something interesting. Hopefully, there will be more of that in the next book.


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Starglass The Starglass Sequence eBook Phoebe North Reviews

I admit, there were some things I liked about this book. It was interesting to see how "secularized" the Jewish culture had become in 500 years (although we learn later that the original "settlers" were primarily cultural rather than devout Jews, which added some perspective), and the fact that family and individual dysfunction still existed (and was still either hidden from or ignored by others) in such a small community. The idea that the colonization ship had been configured to mimic life on earth was novel. And the use of the diary entries of the main character's ancestress (one of those who leave the Earth) to provide the "then and now" perspective was interesting, although I thought it could have been developed further.
But I kept running up against concepts I felt weren't completely thought out. Is a population of 1000 (250 families) sufficient to provide an adequate gene pool and enough people for all the necessary functions? Where are all the grandparents? (No mention of euthanasia or shortened life expectancy.) Why the mandate that everyone marry and have one boy and one girl if the children are made in a lab and incubated in a Hatchery and why encourage early marriage? Why use an apprentice system which almost insures that knowledge will be lost from generation to generation?
But the worst was yet to come. As I neared the end of the book, the number of inconsistencies and loose ends kept increasing. To my astonishment and dismay, the end of the book resolved almost nothing; everything was left in limbo, loose ends flapping in the breeze all over the place. At first, I couldn't tell if the author ran out of steam and hadn't plotted the story out sufficient beforehand, or needed to keep the book to a certain length or what. But I now suspect there's a sequel coming and Ms. North deliberately wrote a "cliffhanger" ending so we'd have to buy another book (or more) to learn what happens to everyone. Which I think is cheating.
STARGLASS was an entertaining science fiction story that takes place on a generation ship that is nearing its destination. The main character is Terra. She has lost her mother to cancer - the first cancer death in the ship's 500 year history - and has been left with her father who is so buried in grief and anger that he doesn't make a good parent. At age sixteen, Terra is given her vocation as all others her age are. While she is a talented artist, she is assigned to be a botanist.

Sixteen-year-olds on the ship also pick their life partners with girls as likely to propose as boys. Terra's father is encouraging her to pair up with his apprentice. Koen is willing but Terra senses something off about him. When he introduces her to the revolutionary underground, Terra learns secrets that move her out of her complacency and into a more active role in the fate of the voyage.

This one has lots of the familiar tropes of generation ships. The leadership has apparently lost sight of the good of the people and are most concerned with keeping their social position. I did have some problem with the science fiction. A crew of 1000, despite how clean their genes are, seems too small to make a self-sustaining colony. Even though the boys are sterilized and babies are made in artificial wombs, I have a hard time thinking that they aren't getting pretty inbred after 500 years. I was also asking myself why they had gravity when the engines were off in the ship. I thought that it was unique that the base population of this ship was Jewish. One of the aims of the people who planned this was to keep Jewish culture alive.

I didn't mention that Terra has been having odd dreams of the planet they are approaching and the love that is waiting for her there. I chose to pull this one off my TBR mountain at just the right time. A sequel - STARBREAK - was released on July 8. I am eager to see what happens when they reach the planet they have been travelling toward for so long.
I'm still not entirely sure what to make of Starglass. It's a strange quiet book about a sad girl in a sad stifling world. The gray mood of the story can be overwhelming at times. I don't think I ever felt particularly excited about what I was reading, but I appreciated it nonetheless.

I appreciate that Phoebe North didn't want to tell the typical rebellion against authority story. She didn't want to create the typical beautiful girl who doesn't know she's beautiful character. And she certainly didn't want to tell the usual love story. This book boxes its hero, Terra, into a corner until she has no choice but to break out of the box entirely.

Terra is deeply real and deeply relatable, as are many of the other characters, and the setting is an innovative take on a generation ship. North certainly did her research, there was never moment where I thought, "Well, THAT wouldn't happen." Maybe Starglass is a little too real. Terra doesn't get to save the day, she doesn't woo the boy of her dreams, she loses the biggest parts of her life tragically and painfully, and even though she proves herself a good friend in the end, she makes some terrible missteps along the way. I sympathized with this girl, and I wanted to be there for her journey, even if it wasn't the most enjoyable trip to ride shotgun on.

I can definitely see Terra becoming a stronger person in the next book, and I am very much looking forward to that. Starglass is worth the read, if anything for its fresh take on a futuristic post-apocalyptic society, and its honest treatment of its teenage characters. The writing is lovely and evocative, everything about this feels touchable. It could have just been a little...warmer, maybe is the word I'm looking for. It was at the end when Terra really started to get focus, when she finally began to define what she wanted and how to get it, that I felt the story was moving towards something interesting. Hopefully, there will be more of that in the next book.