Status Updates From Shroud

You can tell this was written chapter by chapter because rather than showing something is happening throughout, it has a tendency to tell you right before it becomes relevant.

I like the alien ecosystem, drawing from sciences like paleontology, the commentary on capitalism. I think this would make a really cool looking movie. But I don’t love how this book reveals exposition and worldbuilding and I find the characters generic. The narrator just tells the audience the world's history with no justification aside from wanting to tell it to the other character who presumably already knows it.