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Aug 12, 2020
I really enjoyed this book and found it rather touching, in the end. While I did find some things that didn't work (a rather distracting problem with pacing being the chief offender, in my opinion, with an honorable mention going to at least one unhealthy relationship not getting the resolution or closure that I think it deserved), nothing was so poorly executed that it spoiled the rest of the read for me, personally. What I've taken away from this book is that it isn't an action-packed adventure with a complicated plot, but rather a highly emotional story about people who are living with trauma. It's about how that trauma affects their relationships, their view of themselves, and how they learn to live with it and heal it. Or, at least, *begin* to heal it. You could even say that the planet they live on has endured some kind of trauma itself, and they have to figure out what happened, how it's affecting the lifeforms living there, and how they can possibly fix it. If they can't fix it, can they adapt to live with it? It's very possible that I'm reading too much into it, or even projecting a lot of my own life experience onto it, but I like to think that it's at least equally possible that this author did a good job of telling a story about trauma and healing. I think that she's incredibly talented, and with enough time she'll develop the skill she needs to improve whatever went wrong for so many readers here in future books. I say give it a try!