Ok so this book gets like a solid 3.8/5 for me.

This was a relatively quick read for me and while I was able to figure out some of the plot twists, there were some that I didn't catch until the reveal. I love the concept of this novel, and I feel like it was on the right track to follow in the veins of "Lessons in Chemistry" meets "Hidden Figures." but it didn't quite hit the mark.

Annie Fisk is bisexual, but given her inner monologues we get, she is coded more like an aromantic bisexual. None of her relationships with other characters feels full fleshed out, and they feel one sided from the other party. This made some of the romantic and family plotlines a little less believable (especially how "distracted" she claims to get)

HOWEVER, she gets major kudos for being a bad a** lady scientist, who has the guts to speak her mind, but at the same time never actually feels like she achieves her goal of getting to space. With all the time jumps, its takes until about halfway through the book to actually get to NASA and even then, there is not a lot of plot dedicated to her work with Apollo 11. At this point the story goes into what I at first thought was left field, but in reality it was the glue that brought the entire novel full circle. By the end, I was much more able to better appreciate what the overarching themes were.