Big Big Sky tells the story of a pod of five brainwashed teenage soldiers in the future. Part one is them figuring out that the aliens who pull their strings aren’t telling them the truth, and their breakout from the facility that imprisons them. Part two tells about the pod fighting the higher level soldiers sent to bring them back, dead or alive. And part three, well, I won’t spoil this part.

The beginning was okay, though somewhat of a drag. In the middle I was hyped! This was awesome! I’d finally gotten used to the language, the characters were fighting and interacting and I wanted to see what was going to happen. But at the end I just kept asking myself "what the hell?" and "what happened to this?"

I would so read a Kristyn Dunnion book if it were put out by Tor or Orbit or Night Shade or Prime. I’m sure it would be awesome! I have to believe a good editor would have worked with Dunnion to turn Big Big Sky into gold. Hell, maybe it wasn’t the editing that went wrong. Nalo Hopkinson is listed as the editor, and her writing is top notch. I don’t really know how the sausage was made. For something I loved in the middle and where I liked the ending itself, but not how it was presented, just feels like "could have been".

Full review at my blog: http://reading.kingrat.biz/reviews/big-big-sky-kristyn-dunnion ( )