I really wanted to like this; I'd heard really good things about it, and I usually like sci fi. The spelling and grammar errors in the file didn't help, but the story itself was too long and ponderous for my taste. Too much time with nothing happening, bracketing times when ALL THE THINGS were happening. I'm sure other people will love this, but it wasn't for me at all.


Receiving an ARC did not affect my review in any way.



'You know something my mother once told me?' he said. 'She was thinking about what it's like just before you're born. Babies can hear their mother's voice, they get distressed, they feel pain, even in their mother's stomach. They turn towards the light, like all of us. The womb, though, is the only world they have ever known. They can see all of it, the beginning and the end, and of course, they think there is nothing else. Can't even conceive of it.
'So, being born, being dragged out into the child, into the searing lights and all the noise, must feel like dying - like their whole world disappearing along with every single thing they ever knew. Maybe dying is like that too, none of us know what's out there. But we've experienced something a little like it before. Being born was the best thing that ever happened to us. The world is bigger and more beautiful than we ever could have imagined and on the other side of it there were people we'd never met who already love us. They've been excited. They've been waiting.'