Zoe's Tale

Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi

Zoe's Tale
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Author: John Scalzi
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-19
ISBN: 0765316986
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Tor Books

Book Reviews of Zoe's Tale

Book Review: Definitely readable, but not his best work.
Summary: 3 Stars

While I enjoyed it, it's not nearly as good as Old Man's War or The Last Colony. I honestly don't think he had enough material to flesh out a full novel, it feels like a lot of filler solely to answer a few plot holes in Last Colony.

Very well written, as all of his stuff is, but it could have been done in far less content as a novella or short story, I feel.

If you're a completionist, you'll still get it, but if you're not... Read it at the library first or borrow it from a friend to see if you feel the money's worth it.

Summary of Zoe's Tale

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?

I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.

Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did - how I did what I had to do - not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.

It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.

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