Jaelyn reviewed Frontier by Grace Curtis
Review of 'Frontier' from Storygraph
3 stars
Earth was mostly abandoned after the climate catastrophe. Those who remained, creating a religion of isolation, life is now a wild west society of sheriffs and gunslinging. But one day a ship crashes on Earth and one visitor (the first in hundreds of years) begins her desperate search for the rest of her crew (though mainly, the woman she loves).
The structure of the book follows the visitor through the experiences of different people she encounters as she makes her way across this new west (and the protagonist’s moniker changes through each of their perspectives). This kept things fresh but I felt many of them deserved far more attention and I wish we could have spent more time with them and fleshed them out. But it certainly helped to broaden the world as you pass through it.
It’s been referenced to be as being similar to Becky Chambers and there …
Earth was mostly abandoned after the climate catastrophe. Those who remained, creating a religion of isolation, life is now a wild west society of sheriffs and gunslinging. But one day a ship crashes on Earth and one visitor (the first in hundreds of years) begins her desperate search for the rest of her crew (though mainly, the woman she loves).
The structure of the book follows the visitor through the experiences of different people she encounters as she makes her way across this new west (and the protagonist’s moniker changes through each of their perspectives). This kept things fresh but I felt many of them deserved far more attention and I wish we could have spent more time with them and fleshed them out. But it certainly helped to broaden the world as you pass through it.
It’s been referenced to be as being similar to Becky Chambers and there certainly is some of that in the setup but I don’t think it carries the same level of hope punk. But it certainly puts humanity and ordinary people at the heart of its world.