LitPick Review
The Baba Yaga is a book about Delia Walker and Maria, two totally different women from two entirely different worlds.
Delia Walker works for the Bureau, a group of people who work to control all of the worlds within reach of the Expansion. While some parts of the Bureau want to destroy a group of aliens called the Weird, Delia is part of the group who wants to try to communicate with them. After the Weird attack Braun’s World (the name of one of the worlds within the Expansion), Delia must race to find a world where it is rumored that humans and the Weird live in peace.
Maria is just a normal person who lives on Braun’s World. She is forced to leave her home with her husband and 4 year old daughter when her husband comes home and tells her that the Weird have come. They rush to get away and manage to escape.
Delia's and Maria's paths cross, and they decide to team up to try and find the rumored world. Will they find it, or will old friends stop them first? Find out in The Baba Yaga!
Opinion:
One of my recipes for a good book is a mix of action, mystery, and adventure. The Baba Yaga had all of those parts. I liked that the authors, Eric Brown and Una McCormack, described the characters and the setting of the story thoroughly. I was able to picture the size and appearance of everything. A part in the book that I particularly liked was when Failt, a Vetch child, snuck on Delia’s ship. It was generous of Delia to keep Failt safe when the pilot wanted to get rid of him.
One thing I didn’t like about this book, though, was how it ended. I’m not a fan of sad endings, and I wish it would have ended differently. I would recommend this book to ages 13 and up, or to anyone who likes sci-fi and doesn’t mind some bad language.
