Alesha Cary’s Reviews > Otherworldly > Status Update

Cleo and shakes decipher the language of language of the Octonary. Shakes sacrifices himself and it is destroyed. Cleo drags Austin to the next biosphere. When she collapses, he saves her. She talks to Austin inside the hive, and he describes it as a womb. Cleo is troubled, but continues with her plan to release the anti-God from gravity. They proceed into the Pine ultimate biosphere, which is harsh.

I’m struggling… sci-fi is maybe not my thing…. Cleo struggles to contain Austin, or the consciousness collective that has absorbed Austin and is trying to take her. She has Shakes distract the o to army and tells Daniel to land so they can be saved. The constant shift is fascinating but exhausting and I can’t get a handle on it.

This is a bizarre novel about a team of astronauts going out into a space that they believe holds no other life forms and finding instead a troubling planet that defies all laws. Cleo Xavier, a terraformed who is addictive to audio drug stimulates sets out to find a missing crew member and discovers dangers and troubling landscapes both.