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Review: Citizen Sim: Cradle of the Stars

Citizen Sim: Cradle of the Stars Citizen Sim: Cradle of the Stars by Michael Solana
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Okay so right off the bat this book reminded me of The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima. Main character is a high school boy misfit accompanied by his two other high school boy friends and then main character finds out his life is not all that is once seemed. All that was pretty identical. But once our main character, Jack we’ll call him, has his life flipped upside down, then they branch in pretty different directions. I liked reading Citizen Sim a lot more than The Warrior Heir. I liked the story better, the characters, the theme, etc. much more.

The writing was not fantastic but not bad either. I mean, it did tell instead of show a lot, I noticed at the beginning at least. After a while I never noticed again so who knows. And a lot of the dialog was he said, she said. But what the characters actually said was pretty golden.

“Sorry,” said Galen, “the guy who gets his jollies off by putting bullets into people doesn’t get the moral high ground”

Beauty.

Also, just by looking at the cover, I actually though this was going to be a graphic novel! Though slightly disappointed at the lack of pretty pictures throughout, this was still a pretty good read. I liked it, I don’t know if I really liked it, but I don’t feel like three stars is enough. Four stars it is! *Edit* I lowered it to 3 stars, lol. I'm going to admit that I went too easy on this book due to the fact that this was the first book I had ever gotten for free.

I got a free e-copy of this book from Netgally to review, yay!

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