Review of 'Mars Life' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
This is one of the better entries in this series, largely because Bova (for the most part) sticks to science and not those PESKY HUMAHN RELATIONSHIPS BLEEP BLORP.
However, this good news must be balanced by the fact that there is waaaaaaay more racial stereotyping in this book than in the rest—the main character, who is Native American, and a side character, who is Jewish, in particular are described by the author and treated by other characters in a manner that should have been unacceptable in 2008 but apparently wasn’t. While it’s nice to reflect on how far we as a society have come even within the last decade, it’s jarring to read and brought my overall rating down a star.
