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title = "Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4) - John Scalzi"
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date = 2017-01-25
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "john scalzi", "reviews", "old man's war", "scifi"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2102600.Zoe_s_Tale):
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Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How
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I did what I did — how I did what I had to do — not just to stay alive but to
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keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way
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I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what
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I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and
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hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its
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captivity. All through my eyes.
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{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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It's been awhile since I've read _The Last Colony_ and, when I started reading
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this book, I thought "I've already read this, but since I don't remember
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everything, no damage in reading it again". And somethings were different, so
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I thought "Well, my memory is not the same anymore, it seems." And when I
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finally finished the book and read the author's commentary about it, I finally
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realized I didn't read "Zoe's Tale". At all.
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Instead of going forward with the tale of Old Man's War main protagonists,
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Scalzi starts at the very start of "Last Colony" and tells the same story by
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the eyes of another character, this time (wanna guess?) Zoe. Kinda like
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[book:Shadow of the Giant|8647 (and its series), which follows Bean instead of
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Ender.
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It's a fun book -- I still love the way Scalzi writes -- but if you try to
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read after reading Last Colony, you may think you're reading the same thing
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again.
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