![]() While he gets some resolution in the end, by then the reader just doesn’t care enough about him to be glad for the ending. Conner is a complete wimp who essentially deserves everything he gets because he is so passive and unwilling to stand up to his bully of a sister. ” It doesn’t take long before the reader is ready to send all the characters to the fire. According to the story blurb, “To move on with his life, he will have to confront his past. Conner is a chief who spends his off-work time trying to recreate the recipes of his late mother. “ Beyond the El” by John Chu started with an intriguing sla n t on the premise of dealing with the death of a parent. Other than that, it is a good story of the growth of Saga from a worker that merely existed to find a purpose. The problem is that the writer appears to have been so influenced by the Farscape and Babylon 5 television series’ that it comes across as a fanfiction pastiche of both shows to a reader well versed in the two classic video series. ![]() ![]() “ The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir” by Karin Tidbeck is a well-crafted coming of age story of Saga, the janitor of a trans-dimensional ship called Skidbladnir. ![]()
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