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I am a big fan of Half-Life 2 and this book was like from the perspective of the Combine and I loved it for that fact! The writing was superb. The characters excellent. When I finally put the book down after driving through it relentlessly, there were zero weaknesses in my mind in terms of writing prowess, style, character choices, etc. The only weakness I can identify after some thought is the story tropes are well-known, so I wasn't surprised by much, but that doesn't lessen my experience at all! I love these tropes! Fighting control and oppression from a sophisticated villain, dystopian inequality, clashing personalities within a squad just trying to survive, mind control, the works! I don't mind reading a story that is similar to ones I have read in the past because it is told differently, and in a much more mature way. For example, similar motivations drive the characters in this book as they do in say Hunger Games, but without the condescending teenage fodder of ridiculous love triangles Suzanne Collins drizzled over everything to sell to her audience. This is truer, grittier, and more action-driven than a mopey protagonist pinning over some boy. The author's notes say this was hard for her to write? But I didn't pick on on any struggling prose at all. I saw the heart of the author in wanting to tell her version of this story with none of the fluff and all the kick ass lady protag conflict action. Thank GOODNESS no love interest angst. All in all, good job finishing this book Skrutskie and I hope you can balance your new job with more stories like yours to come. I really appreciated the 35 year old Marshal to counter weight the teenagers in the story. It gave myself a character to identify with as well. I highly recommend this to my friends because I know they love story elements like this.


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Hullmetal Girls Emily Skrutskie Books Reviews

I liked this book. I read it quickly and i was engaged in the story. I recommend it as a lightweight sci-fi YA read.

However, the blurb does it no service by comparing it to Pierce Brown's books or Illuminae, both of which are vastly more complex, both in writing style and story scope. This is a quick, one-off (there'd better not be a sequel) read and, while it has its dark points, is more of an adventure in a troubled world than a true distopian novel.

And, as i alluded in the title, a couple of the major plot points are basically the same as in a well-known YA dystopian trilogy, and if you've read said trilogy (or seen the movies) you'll have some suspicions pretty early on, which bleeds away some of the suspense.

So, want a lightweight-but-not-lighthearted read? Try this. Looking for something to put on your Pierce-Brown-And-Jay-Kristoff shelf? Nope, not this.
This is a great story for girls. It shows their strength and emotions without making them "girly". And just how badass girls can be.
I was so excited the first time I heard about HULLMETAL GIRLS. Just finished it and can say the excitement was completely justified. Excellent book, amazing characters, hell of a plot. I really really enjoyed this.
If you're looking for yet another sci-fi offering that's attempting to be the next Game of Thrones But In Space, look elsewhere. Hullmetal Girls is something much more refreshing than that. We have real people here, dealing with real struggles - not that many of us have to actually get exos grafted to our bodies, but all of us deal with uncertainty, all of us deal with how to prioritize family, work, and other commitments. The author shows us these struggles beautifully, and weaves a compelling story where the characters, not the sci-fi, takes center stage.
One of my favorite parts of this novel was how unflinching the author was about the difficulties the POV characters had in becoming and adjusting to being a Scela (a cyborg). The first half shows the characters becoming, learning how to be, and trying to excel at being a Scela. We see Aisha before the transformation, get her motivations for signing up to have her body mutilated in order to become a cyborg soldier for the General Body (the ruling body of the space fleet). We watch as the people who went in before her come out physically and probably neurologically damaged from the process, failing to actually integrate with the machinery. Here she is, sacrificing herself to save her siblings, and if her body rejects the enhancements, they won't see a cent of the salary she's doing it for. So, right off the bat, we have these really high stakes for Aisha. We also get to see her actually go through the process of being fitted with the enhancements, and her attempts to work her new body before she's really figured it out. We see how she and Key communicate with the exo, how it controls them, how they can control it. And when they are fitted in a exosystem (love the name!) and mentally joined with each other and two others, we see how that affects them.

For the first half of the novel, the group's goal is to prove that they belong in the elite ranks of Scela. For Aisha and Praava, this means a better salary for their siblings (Aisha's to keep her sister out of the dyeworks and her brother in the better hospital ship); for Key and Woojhin (I'm probably spelling that wrong), it means proving themselves. They start off very poorly, so the struggle to get a higher ranking during training is intense. I was totally on board with this. I actually didn't know where the book was going, so I expected that their final test would set us up for the assignment that would dominate the rest of the book. This was close, but not exactly what happened, but I was good with where it went anyway.

Key has an easier time with the integration process, mostly because she doesn't remember going through it. She deals with big holes in her memory, giving us the intrigue of what made her become a Scela. We know she didn't do it for money--her family is well-off, we know--and with one of her exosystem comrades a criminal, we can speculate whether she's done a bigger crime or been through a horrible ordeal that had to be erased from her memories or something else. With no past, her motivations at the beginning were not as interesting as Aisha's, but it meant that she had more growth to go through in the book. I liked her development, but one of my biggest complaints about the novel was how the chancellor used the threat of her past as collateral and punishment...but it never made sense to me as a threat.

As with most "governments on a spaceship" settings, there is a dystopia feel to this book. The review that introduced me to the book compared it to Hunger Games a few times, and with Districts, and the sacrifice for her siblings, and a particular element at the end, you can definitely see the influence there.

There's some queer rep here, but sadly it is not much more than a mention. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about a YA novel that does not revolve around romance! It's probably another thing that made me love this book so much because it's so refreshing to see teens do things without having to be obsessed with their love interests. Both the queer rep and any romantic entanglements are relegated to a single scene, where two of the exosystem explore what it's like to be together while connected, subjecting our POV characters (one of whom is aroace) to the memories and emotions of the encounter. But this is it for the discussion of queer rep, and while I'm happy to have sexuality not actually be a factor in the story, I am sad that the first aroace character I've ever seen in YA (and ever heard of in YA SFF) could just as easily have been hetero for all it mattered to the book. Praava is also either trans or intersex, but I can only tell you that because of reviews I've read since; the mention of it in the book is so minor that I missed it. Woojhin reports to be pan. So this is great, there are all these people on the LGBTQIA spectrum, and in a publishing universe where we see characters all over the spectrum in lots of books over all the genres, it would totally not matter that these characters' sexualities and genders are non-factors in this story. But when you don't see them very often, and they also don't affect the characters or the story at all, it all seems a little like making a character aroace because you weren't going to make romance a part of the story anyway, so why not?

That said, I really enjoyed the novel, and the lack of romance was probably a decent part of my enjoyment of it. I like that the main characters connected as friends and comrades working towards a goal together and dealing with their pain together, and that it was a romantic connection. We need to see more of that in YA.

Oh, and finally, there was not a single bitten lip (/cheek/tongue) in this book, which may be the first book this year that I've read that can say that.

Anyway, overall I loved the book, and easily give it five stars.

Recommended for fans of YA SF; cyborgs; dystopias in space; non-romantic plots; light LGBTQIA rep; diverse cast; telepathic connections; friends, family, and coworker relationships; amnesia; the shell game/three-card monte
I am a big fan of Half-Life 2 and this book was like from the perspective of the Combine and I loved it for that fact! The writing was superb. The characters excellent. When I finally put the book down after driving through it relentlessly, there were zero weaknesses in my mind in terms of writing prowess, style, character choices, etc. The only weakness I can identify after some thought is the story tropes are well-known, so I wasn't surprised by much, but that doesn't lessen my experience at all! I love these tropes! Fighting control and oppression from a sophisticated villain, dystopian inequality, clashing personalities within a squad just trying to survive, mind control, the works! I don't mind reading a story that is similar to ones I have read in the past because it is told differently, and in a much more mature way. For example, similar motivations drive the characters in this book as they do in say Hunger Games, but without the condescending teenage fodder of ridiculous love triangles Suzanne Collins drizzled over everything to sell to her audience. This is truer, grittier, and more action-driven than a mopey protagonist pinning over some boy. The author's notes say this was hard for her to write? But I didn't pick on on any struggling prose at all. I saw the heart of the author in wanting to tell her version of this story with none of the fluff and all the kick ass lady protag conflict action. Thank GOODNESS no love interest angst. All in all, good job finishing this book Skrutskie and I hope you can balance your new job with more stories like yours to come. I really appreciated the 35 year old Marshal to counter weight the teenagers in the story. It gave myself a character to identify with as well. I highly recommend this to my friends because I know they love story elements like this.