It a gigantic, organic rubbish tip.įirstly, she should’ve died from that fall. Okay so what happens actually? When the MC is thrown down one of these eventually she falls all the way to the centre of the planet. There are references of these recycling shoots where unwanted people (!!) are thrown down and “recycled”. The construction of it is that it’s layered - not just the one, external surface like on Earth. It takes a while to get into the story where we actually explore what else is in the planet. This is a discussion about how the planets functions and what we see of it.

And for a declining population this is desirable. It’s all just too much.īut that means one of the main characters is fought over by multiple species because her womb (transferrable, yup) produces the humans. “Something the planet needs” – and she gets all lovey-dovey over it!! IT. This one lady gives birth to a gross ass cog-thing – gods know what its function was. They all only ever give birth to the same thing. okay sooo – that means that when the planet needs something, they get pregnant. Except it’s less exciting than that sounds because the plot is nonexistent.īut as this is organic sci-fi (ew) that allows there to be no men. If you want to read more about the planet skip ahead to the spoiler section where I’ll tell you what to expect.Īs all the different planets are dying at their own paces it’s basically a game to try and fight to the death with others to win a planet that isn’t dying. Personally, it made me feel sick the way it was done in this book. The organic planet has a lot more to it than first meets the eye and if that is your thing then by all means, go ahead. So we spend A LOT of time wondering what on earth is happening. Except she can’t remember previous missions every time she’s, shall we say, resurrected, her memories are wiped clean. The book basically starts off with a mission happening and failing and the character ends back in the same spot. We know that there are characters playing solely for their own game and we know that there’s a lot of weird shit going on. We understand that she has a mission, that the planet she’s on is exploring other planets in the hope that it will help save their own, dying planet (or relocate). The stories follows an unreliable narrator – she has no memories. It was at this point that I should’ve put the book down. This book is a sci-fi story set on an organic planet. The weirdness of this plot is still very much so burnt in my memory despite the months in between since I read it. I’m finally getting around to doing this review. It has an unreliable narrator, a lack of anything *really* happening and just a confusing world construction.

I’ve never been so determined in my life to finish a book I wasn’t enjoying but there we go. The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley 1.5/5 STARS

The stars are legion