Cho Summary

What we enjoyed about “Ocean’s Godori”:

• Korean space opera interesting, culture interesting
• Reading beyond the western scope amazing
• Set in the future, Korea reunited and leading power
• Traditions alive but futuristic, connection to Earth
• Learned a lot by reading
• Found family vibe of the crew lovely
• Character dynamics more interesting than the ‘plot’
• Captain odd one out also realistic
• Haven Sasani likeable; unapologetic for who he is
• Complexity of characters great: complex backgrounds
• Needed to warm up to Ocean and Haven, but that was great as well
• Side-characters endearing traits, not interchangable
• Played with your expectations
• Atmospheric, jump in into a place
• Haven as a focaliser helpful and relatable
• Eco-terrorism interesting
• Rich people framing for murder interesting
• Ocean and Teo good chemistry
• Wonderful queer rep normalised
• Teo’s grief was handled well, very moving
• Characterisation very well done
• Deep fake identity theft scary
• Technology fascinating (but underused)
• Death fascinating
• Want to know more about Haven

What we discussed:

• Political dimension could have been explained more
• Plot a bit confusing / sparse
• More world building
• Took a long time to get into it; novel actually gets started after 50%
• Unresolved family politics
• Open ending frustrating
• Storylines unfinished meh
• Love triangle terrible
• Pacing off, beginning super slow sadly
• Not all focalisers likeable from the beginning, novel does not draw it in
• Sequel not announced right away; sad; but there is going to be a sequel
• Blurb spoilered us: waiting for this to happen
• Lots of unused potential

Ratings:

• 2.5/5 hover bikes
• 4/5 found family tropes
• 3/5 deep fake identity theft
• Beginning too slow
• Story bit meh
• Characters and vibes fab