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Terra (2013)

by Mitch Benn(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0575132086 (ISBN13: 9780575132085)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Gollancz

series

Terra

review 1: For the first 3/4ths of the book, the most condemning thing I would have said was that it was cute. But thanks to the ending, I'm going with tacky. It's boringly human-centric (good old humans-being-the-best-and-most-creative-and-loving wins the day!), and with a weird emphasis on biological parentage. Terra is raised from infancy, even named, by an alien who everybody insists is NOT her father (even though that's what fathers are), and when instead reunited with her biological parents on Earth (who she was with for the first 3 weeks of her life or so, and that's it) launches right into calling them "mom" and "dad" and loving them to bits. It's weird. Gaiman and I have some DIFFERENCES, I wish his quotes were not so often smacked across the front of books, because that is ... morenot a helpful or reliable guide.
review 2: Mitch Benn's Terra was one of the finest books I've read in a very long time. It is an enthralling science fiction tale overflowing with humor, drama, tension, originality and above all else imagination. Inverting the traditional superman-esque narrative (in this case a human child is raised on another world), the world created is both alien and yet strangely human. And Mitch Benn uses his world perfectly to spin his tale. I could say more but don't think I could do so without going too far into the plot. So instead I will leave at saying this is a must read book that I cannot recommend enough. less

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