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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Not even exiting enough for the excercise bike:
I'm stupid. I was very disappointed with The Last Colony, but still decided to go ahead and buy Zoe's Tale. Being sleep-deprived with a 7-week old baby, I thought this book could be the right level. That was wrong, and I should have known better. Zoe's Tale contains so little action and is such a regurgitation of The Last Colony that I quickly resorted to reading it only on my exercise bike. Even pedaling away at 90 rpm, this book was barely engaging enough to keep my attention. After reading... more info
Teenagers Only:
If you must read this book find a library and skip the first 200 pages. Nothing like Scalzi's other books and barely science fiction, more like Nancy Drew.
A Goddess with a Real Face:
This is the fourth book set in the Old Man's War universe, but it's not a continuation of the story arcs he established in the first three, but rather a retelling of the events of the third book, The Last Colony, but told this time from a very different perspective, that of sixteen year old Zoe Boutin-Perry, daughter of a traitor, the object of a major treaty between the Colonial Union and the Obin, and adopted by John and Jane Perry. Now doing something like this is fraught with peril, as readers of... more info
More character time leads to Scalzi's best so far:
(I received a Zoe's Tale ARC through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program) Zoe Boutin Perry was never a significant character on her own merits in the previous John Scalzi book "The Last Colony" - a key to parts of the plot, but more important there for what she was than who she was. Combine that with her involvement in the one big plot gap of the book - where key events happened offscreen - and there's plenty of room for something like "Zoe's Tale", which covers roughly the same time period... more info
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