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tome15's review
3.0
Crispin, A. C. Starbridge. Starbridge No. 1. Ace, 1989.
Crispin is an accomplished storyteller. Best-known for her contributions to the Star Wars series, she has a chance here to escape the straightjacket of prefab characters in a universe that is full of not-so-alien aliens. She said her goal was to create a girl’s coming of age story in an interstellar adventure. Mission accomplished. Sadly, the rest of the series does not follow the heroine through her career.
Crispin is an accomplished storyteller. Best-known for her contributions to the Star Wars series, she has a chance here to escape the straightjacket of prefab characters in a universe that is full of not-so-alien aliens. She said her goal was to create a girl’s coming of age story in an interstellar adventure. Mission accomplished. Sadly, the rest of the series does not follow the heroine through her career.
lanidon's review
2.0
Is anyone ever gonna see this? Given how hard it was to find this book, probably not.
There were bits in here that were great. The way communicating with new species was addressed was genuinely very good. Unfortunately the plot is pretty sloppy. It drags and then a million things happen and then it drags again. It takes so long to actually get to Star ridge, it's wild. The conflict just,,,, doesn't happen after the life threatening trek. It's just a mess
The worst part of this book though is the romance between a sixteen year old girl and a 24 year old doctor. It's disgusting. He's incredibly manipulative. He tries to force her to get engaged so she can't leave him. Later he tries to talk her out of her dream career that she's really good at to go follow him around as a housewife. I hate it, every part of it sucks. Rip him out of the book entirely
There were bits in here that were great. The way communicating with new species was addressed was genuinely very good. Unfortunately the plot is pretty sloppy. It drags and then a million things happen and then it drags again. It takes so long to actually get to Star ridge, it's wild. The conflict just,,,, doesn't happen after the life threatening trek. It's just a mess
The worst part of this book though is the romance between a sixteen year old girl and a 24 year old doctor. It's disgusting. He's incredibly manipulative. He tries to force her to get engaged so she can't leave him. Later he tries to talk her out of her dream career that she's really good at to go follow him around as a housewife. I hate it, every part of it sucks. Rip him out of the book entirely
gelsey's review
4.0
A very nice romp in the land of sci-fi! The world building is well done and the cultures well thought out. The love aspect is very realistic--almost too much so at the end, for it was bittersweet and not always the type of conclusion one wants from a book, even though it worked very well and powerfully. Definitely worth reading, though, especially for a young adult.
justabean_reads's review
4.0
I must have read this book three or four times when I was a teen, and then spent the next few years hunting through used bookstores for the rest of the series. I'm so pleased that the author has released them in E-books so I can read the all again.
This is classic optimistic better future sci fi, of the kind that made me love the genre when I was a kid. The characters feel real, and the heroine who is sixteen at the start of the series acts like a sixteen year old, but is still smart, bull-headed and compassionate. I love the adventure, and the world building, and stayed up all hours finishing it, even though I knew by heart what would happen.
This is classic optimistic better future sci fi, of the kind that made me love the genre when I was a kid. The characters feel real, and the heroine who is sixteen at the start of the series acts like a sixteen year old, but is still smart, bull-headed and compassionate. I love the adventure, and the world building, and stayed up all hours finishing it, even though I knew by heart what would happen.
harryr's review
2.0
It feels a bit harsh to give this two stars because I did enjoy it as a bit of light reading, but it’s not well written.