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Book #28 of 2019: MiNRS
Mar. 18th, 2019 02:10 pmMiNRS by Kevin Sylvester
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Set a good distance into the future, humanity has a colony on a near-Earth planet and is mining ores and such for Earth. The colony is established enough that the miners could have their families there. Someone attacks it and all the adults are killed, leaving a small handful of pre-teen kids to deal with the situation... and with the attackers.
While I liked the idea for this book, unfortunately I didn't believe most of it could happen. However, it is a middle grade book, so I'm very much not the target audience of it. I'm sure young kids wouldn't think the characters were way too smart or mature for their ages. To adult reader me, the kids seemed more adults than pre-teens.
While I don't usually notice much about gender ratios of characters in books, this one was off enough for me to really pick up on it. Almost all the characters were male (or at least the ones with speaking parts). There were two "main character" level female characters, but one was aggressively mean and the other didn't arrive until the latter half of the book. It really felt like a book meant for young boy readers.
I liked parts of the story, but I was bored through just as many parts. In the last quarter of it, I was close to abandoning it multiple times. It ended on a great cliffhanger, but unfortunately I don't care enough about the characters to continue with it.
Take all this with a grain of salt though. It's a middle grade book, so it's written for readers too young for YA.
Traditional or self-published: Traditional
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Set a good distance into the future, humanity has a colony on a near-Earth planet and is mining ores and such for Earth. The colony is established enough that the miners could have their families there. Someone attacks it and all the adults are killed, leaving a small handful of pre-teen kids to deal with the situation... and with the attackers.
While I liked the idea for this book, unfortunately I didn't believe most of it could happen. However, it is a middle grade book, so I'm very much not the target audience of it. I'm sure young kids wouldn't think the characters were way too smart or mature for their ages. To adult reader me, the kids seemed more adults than pre-teens.
While I don't usually notice much about gender ratios of characters in books, this one was off enough for me to really pick up on it. Almost all the characters were male (or at least the ones with speaking parts). There were two "main character" level female characters, but one was aggressively mean and the other didn't arrive until the latter half of the book. It really felt like a book meant for young boy readers.
I liked parts of the story, but I was bored through just as many parts. In the last quarter of it, I was close to abandoning it multiple times. It ended on a great cliffhanger, but unfortunately I don't care enough about the characters to continue with it.
Take all this with a grain of salt though. It's a middle grade book, so it's written for readers too young for YA.
