I received this book as an eARC from Netgalley. All opinions are my own!

Orion City has been in Quarantine for a decade, and Courtney has been bored of her life for almost as long. But then a mysterious man named W walks into her life and the lines between black and white, good and evil, human and supernatural start to blur.

I adored this book so much that I could barely put it down! From the very beginning, Orion City is so unique and yet startlingly familiar that it sucks you in and keeps you trapped within its walls. From page one, you find yourself asking the same questions that Courtney is asking, wanting answers and wanting more than what Orion City has offered so far.

I loved Courtney as a main character! Watching her growth in this book was breathtaking to me. From the very beginning, Courtney is relatable and lovable, but watching the ways she transforms makes her even more so. Her struggles and her questions are so real that it almost feels as though you yourself are Courtney as she tries to tackle this insane world that she's been thrust into.

This book also tackles a lot of moral questions and really starts to blur the line between black and white. As someone who has always loved morally grey characters, it was like this book was made for me. It really hones in on some of the tougher questions in life, and the way that it handles Courntey's emotions was beautifully done.

If you're looking for your next fast-paced, action-packed fictional world, look no further than Orion City!

The Walls of Orion spools from the quaint and quarantined humdrum and quotidian sameness of our hard-bitten heroine's small world to the quakingly hectic set of happenings she finds herself witness to with slow and steadfast footing. Stuck in all senses of the state-of-being, Courtney squishes down the slice of softness that dwells in her to the depths of her subconscious, going about her day-to-day of brewing beans, betting and bantering with her barista buds until a chain of chance encounters and coffee-shop capers bust her boredom and get her caught up in the city's eerie conspiracies. Against the chaos of the virus Orion is victim to and the vigilantes its citizens vilify, Courtney becomes enthralled with the odd visits of an enigmatic customer - a charmer of a villainous chap, it turns out - to the considerable envy of the cheerily overbearing cop she's entangled with.

Considering the tougher topics it tackles, The Walls of Orion's tone tends towards the lighter; my lone complaints are the cropping up of a couple of tired tropes and the too-common throwing around of the label 'crazy' in less-than-tactful contexts. That aside, its story layers upon a captivating concept with a lively central couple and a chorus of compelling side-plots, and it all sums to a world well worth wading into if only for how thought-provokingly it lines up to our own confined times; I'll surely be on the lookout for its continuation in city of loons!

Thank you to NetGalley and Acorn Publishing LLC for kindly passing on this arc! 💫