Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak

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Charlie Jane Anders: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

304 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2022 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-31739-1
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4 stars (1 review)

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reviewed Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (Unstoppable, #2)

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak

4 stars

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak is the second book in Charlie Jane Anders' Unstoppable YA sf trilogy. This is an incredibly solid second book of a trilogy. (This book is up for a 2023 Lodestar award as part of the Hugo awards.)

I think part of it is that Tina takes a backseat and Rachel and Elza get more of the spotlight. (Aside from the book covers sequentially being one, two, and then three headshots indicating which number of the book it is, this second book cover features Rachel and Elza vs the first book cover showing Tina, which I think is also an indication of the emphasis here.) This book has yet more uncomfortable feelings and processing and relationship renegotiation and grief and trauma.

I honestly enjoyed this book better than the first, because it's thematically very tight. It says it right on the tin, but dreams being bigger than …