One Giant Leap

One Giant Leap, Heather Kaczynski, sequel to Dare Mighty Things, discussed here. Unfortunately I didn't get very much out of this; the situation and conflicts I found so compelling in the first one were gone in favor of telling a very different kind of story. Obviously I have no idea what the author considered the juice of her story, which scenes or beats she built the thing around, but I didn't feel like there ended up being a very coherent throughline at all, either in this book or between the two. I don't want to say I could have written a better sequel but I could certainly plot a sequel much more to my personal interest. Also the copy editing was not great, which did not put the best foot forward, and I dislike the sequel strategy of rewinding and recapitulating big reveals from the first installment (Incredibles 2 drove me nuts with this). It's just the first couple chapters here but it's *not a strong opening*, argh.

My more interesting sequel plot outline behind a cut, for my own amusement:( Read more... )