Decent story, way too much filler
So the story itself is interesting, but there is so much random filler it suffers. It takes way too long to get to something interesting. There were quite a few times, especially early, when I thought about dropping the book. Things got fairly interesting in the last like 15% of the book, but before that was a struggle.
The relationships are interesting and good, but it seems focus is being shown on inconsequential ones. Like the “first time” thing with Sarah, she’s a one and done character so no one cares. Taylor, Rebecca’s daughter, definitely seems like she will be important but the scene with her was a fade to black oh we did this three times over the night. It was extremely disappointing. I hope the author lessens the filler and spends more time on important things instead of the random stuff, otherwise might have to drop this series.
Not even going to touch the genetic stupidity of 16 breeders for so many people over centuries, even with random locals, the genetic diversity wouldn’t work and inbreeding would be rampant. Worse for the locals who don’t have a detector strip.