I read this for a book club, not expecting to love it as much as I did. Thanks r/Fantasy for getting this book on my radar, because it's SO good. One of my favourite reads of this year, for sure.

First, I have to comment on the writing style. Griffith's prose is nothing short of poetic. The way it lured me in and kept me firmly rooted in the world of Jeep, with all five senses, has to be commended; most of all, I got lost in her descriptions of Jeep's sky. She perfectly captures the feeling of staring up at the clouds and feeling dizzy at their vastness, and this adds an incredible atmosphere, a presence, to the book. 

The characters, too, I fell in love with. Jeep is full of people - as Griffith has pointed out in her afterthought at the end of the book - not "women", people. Because among hundreds of all-female-planet books, Griffith's is one of the only ones I found that kept her women realistic. They aren't monolithic, nor are they helpless. They are flawed and learning and growing, and different, and morally gray and facing difficult choices and and and--

Griffith's women are realistic in a way I am surprised is so rare in sci-fi. Because they're simply that; real.

The ending felt appropriately climactic, with just enough cliffhanger to leave one wondering. It's not perfect or neatly tied up, but thought has been put into it.

Overall, I couldn't put this book down. Some quotes, I still rotate in my mind, remembering Jeep, remembering Ammonite.