The Setting - Eden, a cemetery in space
‘A burial among the stars.’
Year 2112

Thousands of people interred on the satellite. Each special casket facing out through windows - earth, the stars and sun. A mausoleum in space.

A crew has been sent to Eden to correct a mishap. Rebuild areas, write a new requiem music, a theme song, new musical branding for Eden to bring back confidence.

There was a nice, slow build. A tense pacing. I found it creepy, Something is listening, watching… what’s just around the corner? At times I felt the action scenes (painful sounds in their heads) were repetitive.

Overall I liked this novel. Very unique. But also a bit vague on what the crew’s actual tasks were. What would each do or fix? Why it would take six months? This was distracting to me. I would have liked more detail early in the novel on Eden, its purpose, more description of the satellite, how the structure was built, etc. The ending Wikipedia section would be great as the first pages of the story.

A great mix of technology, gore, suspense…

A visual story, the author really paints the scene with color, sound and action - and emotion! Painful human reactions.

Favorite quote:
“There are sounds inside the requiem… Sounds that aren’t supposed to be there.”

“The requiem plays, and all of the living, and all of the dead, listen.”

Thank you NetGalley, the author and publisher for the ARC of Requiem.

About the author - John Palisano is a Bram Stoker Award winning author.

I will post reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, etc closer to the publication date.