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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Central Station - Lavie Tidhar</h1>
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2021-01-20
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2021/">#books:2021</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-1/">#stars:1</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/lavie-tidhar/">#lavie tidhar</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2016/">#published:2016</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986774-central-station">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s
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ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream
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of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a
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robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His
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father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted
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data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.</p>
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★☆☆☆☆
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<p>There is something incredibly satisfying in reading a book in which the
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characters are not some sort of American-centered or -inspired story -- heck,
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even <a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/reviews/books/all-you-need-is-kill/">All You Need Is Kill</a> feels a
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lot like an American story than a Japanese one. But here? No. Names are
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"alien", 'cause you're not used to see them, like mixing Chinese and Russian
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names. And Hebrew names. And the location doesn't look like the general things
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we usually read.</p>
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<p>But while the ambience feels nice, the plot doesn't. I mean, sure, there are
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some incredible elements that could be explored in future novels, but here they
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are thrown and forgotten and never really explored properly. You have children
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with weird abilities that are never explained; you have a diseased women whose
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sickness grants some powers, but something mythical happens with her (and the
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children) and then she suddenly disappears. Was she cured? Does she lives a
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normal life now? Does the mythical thing killed her?</p>
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<p>And you have some mythical gods walking around, something that people take as
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annoyance, but they appear only after the middle of the book, out of the blue.
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I mean, sure, by the description, they are annoying -- 'cause they are gods,
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after all, and can do whatever, whenever they want -- and people doesn't seem
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to really like them, but how the heck we spent this whole time without knowing
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anything about them? And then, this god appears, do some crazy things, and
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disappear and never mentioned again.</p>
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<p>This kind of "starting a thread and never putting a connection in them" happens
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over and over again, just ruining the feeling from the book.</p>
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<p>And the ending... It feels like the author simply decided "Ok, I had enough; I
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need an ending" and just put something there to mark it as ended and gone.</p>
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<p>There is a lot of points that could be explored in the future from here, but
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here... not much is.</p>
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