House of Suns - BookWyrm

Paperback, 576 pages

Published May 24, 2010 by Ace.

ISBN:: 978-0-441-01886-4

(6 reviews)

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence.

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Reading this felt really lovely. This book was suggested to me as being a sci-fi-fantasy, but I don't really see it, I felt like I was reading a sci-fi classic, something I would have read in my childhood. Everything was explained by admittedly improbable technology, maybe the person suggesting it meant soft sci-fi... in any case, irrelevant.
Had a few weird moments where I was escaping reality of a war starting by empathizing with characters in a book learning of an atrocity near them.
The book felt rich in events without being overly action packed. Problems to overcome arose out of natural causes like indulging a bit of greed or paranoia. Mysteries were just there to be discovered later in the book. Characters felt distinct even though they kind of had an excuse for being similar.
Maybe I had my expectations accidentally raised too high but I lacked a bit …

Reading this felt really lovely. This book was suggested to me as being a sci-fi-fantasy, but I don't really see it, I felt like I was reading a sci-fi classic, something I would have read in my childhood. Everything was explained by admittedly improbable technology, maybe the person suggesting it meant soft sci-fi... in any case, irrelevant.
Had a few weird moments where I was escaping reality of a war starting by empathizing with characters in a book learning of an atrocity near them.
The book felt rich in events without being overly action packed. Problems to overcome arose out of natural causes like indulging a bit of greed or paranoia. Mysteries were just there to be discovered later in the book. Characters felt distinct even though they kind of had an excuse for being similar.
Maybe I had my expectations accidentally raised too high but I lacked a bit of differentness to this book? It felt maybe a bit too comfortable and familiar. Still, I wonder how I would feel about this book later, I suspect it holds up well to a reread.