You may remember that my biggest grievance so far is how despite the clever scifi, the smart politics, the thrillerific content of the previous books in the series, I always felt bereft of a good, engaging, narrative voice when reading from John Perry’s viewpoint. It all comes down to perspective, you see. Which, when you think of it, it’s an incredibly impressive statement considering that the plot in this book is basically a repetition of the plot of The Last Colony. So I’ve had this sitting on my TBR for a while as well as sitting at the back of my mind as The Best in the Series, which made me really look forward to reading it.Īnd now that I have, well, yes, this is by far the best and my favourite book in the series to this point. Zoe’s Tale is actually the first book in the series that I heard about before I started reading it because my good friend Renay has not only raved about it but also sent me a signed copy as a present a few months ago.

Previously on the Old Man’s War Readalong: Stand alone or series: Book 4 in the Old Man’s War series. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. I’m going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. But you don’t know my tale: How I did what I did - how I did what I had to do - not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. Seventeen years old.Įveryone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. I’m Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? This month, we continue our EPIC Old Man’s War Review Extravaganza with a joint review of book 4, Zoe’s Tale In March 2013, we asked YOU for your favorite old school suggestions – and the response was so overwhelmingly awesome, we decided to compile a goodreads shelf, an ongoing database, AND a monthly readalong/book club. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature.

Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi