The narrative seems to brush the events briefly, in a detached manner, quickly moving on. Second, I missed being in the moment together with the characters, experiencing it with them. If it weren’t for their names in chapter titles or details about them, it would be impossible to distinguish between them. First, there was no difference between the protagonists’ voices. I do love when the author allows a glimpse into their characters minds, but in this case, I had a couple of issues. The pacing is slow, not much happens, and we spend most of the time in the protagonists’ heads, focusing mainly on spaces in between the occasional events, conversations or musings about those events, recollections and flashbacks, but not the events themselves. The narrative keeps switching between the past and present, allowing us to discover more about the characters, however, not much is clear until the very end, and after each peek into the past, I was left with more questions. The details about the apocalyptic event that left the world in its current state are filled when we jump a year into the past. The mood set from the very beginning seems somber and grim, the narrative introspective and detached, suiting the desolated, lonely world of New Earth. It starts with Astra, living alone as if she’s the only person left on the planet. The narrative is in the first person, switching between the protagonists. The book follows two protagonists who try to find their place in the new world: Astra, a teenage girl who has lost her family and Flynn, a traumatized soldier with mysteriously dark past. There was an explosion, followed by chaos and the disappearance of the population. The story takes place on New Earth, a world that people have escaped to after devastating their home planet. Clockwork stars is a dystopian novel with steampunk elements.
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