I would like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read and honestly review an advanced reader’s copy of this book.

I was almost put off by some of the early reviews on this. They were very mixed, some of them just terrible; and I almost skipped this. I am so glad I didn’t.

Imagine a sci fi story about grieving AI and environmental damage and how even the most ordinary people can influence each other lives in major ways.
Now imagine that story told to you only by an interconnecting web of obituaries. Just page after page of obituaries laying out snapshots of character’s lives, and telling a story just in the gaps of them.

I thought it was brilliant. I was never bored. The only pitfall is how many characters there are to keep track of. I benefitted from reading this on my kindle, where I could just highlight a name and search it to remind myself who they were.

If you love your sci fi weird and meaningful, you should try this. I suspect it won’t be for everyone, but it was very much for me.