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I get that this is thought to be written mostly by Lee insteam of Clarke.
One thing that frustrates me to now end so far is that we went from an society where poly marriages are common (In RwR the Captain hat two wives. Two men of his crew were married to the same woman.) to one were we parade classic family strucutres as the norm. I could be misunderstandig but so far we left our poly lore in the past.

So far I feel a bit odd about this book.
Coming from Murderbot I expected to love it, b/c Martha Wells, duh.
But, I dunno. The naming system is confusing, half the time I am confused who is who and what is what and where is where.
The prose, pacing, etc is really not comparable to MB, by length. Conversations feel stilted, the characters shallow. I am not sure if she has a different editor for this book?

On hold - there is too much silly conflicts. Vintage seems to have decided to be tstl.

I still really can't connect with the characters. I should care but I don't. The world continues to fascinate me, but sadly I don't really care if any of the mcs live or die. And while I do wanna know what happens and how it all ends, with those bland characters it's a bit of a slog to get through this book.

Its not bad, but I am not entirely convinced so far. The world building and story is interesting, but the characters a pretty bland.

First I thought, okay this is ... mid... The prose is not got, but not that bad. The fmc is a bit whiny but hey, she has a badass job. But gosh the further I get it the worse it gets. This book needed some really heavy handed editing. The weird exposition, the tell instead of show. FMC is tstl, mmc is a sad boy and not in the good way. I only continue b/c this feels like roadkill, horrifying but you cant look away.

I guess we will never get the last few chapters, so this will forever stay on my current shelf. I somewhat outgrew this kinda stories but one thing this ficlet does to this day is make me laugh. So I will reread it whenever I need a good chuckle and be glad we got what we got.