Zoe's Tale

An Old Man's War Novel Old Man's War, #4

by John Scalzi

Digital Audio read by Tavia Gilbert; unabridged; 10 h

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Macmillan Audio.

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?

I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.

Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. 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. All of you. 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 …

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?

It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.

4 editions

boum reviewed Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #4)

old girl's war

2 stars

it was okay. the author even wrote in the acknowledgments at the end it is a difficult task

in my view, he partially succeeded. probably because we know too much from the other books (mostly last colony). the novel could have been extra chapters there

not boring, not uninteresting, but a grade lower than the others

the author mentions ender's_shadow as the same kind of book. let's see if card does it better

it was okay. the author even wrote in the acknowledgments at the end it is a difficult task

in my view, he partially succeeded. probably because we know too much from the other books (mostly last colony). the novel could have been extra chapters there

not boring, not uninteresting, but a grade lower than the others

the author mentions ender's_shadow as the same kind of book. let's see if card does it better

Fjordic reviewed Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #4)

Review of "Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)" on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I liked how this book fleshed out Zoe's perspective. However, I ended up skimming large parts of the book as it just wasn't interesting. The parts that we didn't know anything about, like meeting the creatures in the woods and the Obin - those were fascinating.