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Content Warning: suicide, mental health discussions, hallucinations, suffocation, death

This could have been an excellent novel. I love character studies and this could have been a fantastic one that looked at what it means to be locked up together on a generational ship. But it just missed so much for me because of the plot holes in just how shitty and mentally ill these characters were, which should have been a huge red flag in picking people to go up in space for 20 years!

This was actually one of my most anticipated releases of 2019 but I saw so many mixed reviews and put it off until now. And I kinda wish I had never read it. While the beginning was interesting, everything after like 30% felt like it was too slow. Then at the very end they throw in some conspiracy theories and reading it I was like "why are you telling me this now and not at the beginning?"

The characters are nuanced but not likeable enough for the reader to stay engaged and hope they all live. I also listened as an audiobook and with one narrator, it was difficult to know whose perspective we were in at some points in the novel, especially with twins!!!

Also no one had any forethought in this at all. They trained and got these kids ready for 10 years but didn't tell them how to set up society or think to just cyro them? Why? It's like this was set up TO fail, which makes no sense with how they wanted to get that rocket off the ground in the beginning.

I do not recommend this book.

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