Thanks to Netgalley for the review copy!

So, look. I gave this book a shot, reading portions from throughout in case the beginning was intentionally affecting a rambling voice for Shaelin Demeter's quarter of the book. But no, the whole book seems to be constructed of incredibly long-winded tangents and exposition.

I enjoyed the exploration of Shaelin's deafness and how technology helps her, and found some of the ideas around humanity's different paths of development on Mars and the Moon pretty interesting!

But in addition to the writing I just struggle to grasp what the intent was. Yes everyone connects back to Semola on Xenophon, but does that really justify hundreds of pages about... very little happening there?